Katrina's Jeopardy Game

Foundations

100

THIS is the most traditional category of culture that we've studied.

What is FOLK CULTURE?

200

THIS is the most inclusive category of culture that is known to exist today.

What is POP CULTURE?

300

Pop culture requires THIS economic system to continue to grow.

What is CAPITALISM?

400

THIS concept includes the ability to access, analyze and produce information through communication.

What is MEDIA LITERACY?

500

THIS movement of people around the time of industrialization is said to have given rise to popular culture.

What is URBANIZATION?

Experiences

100

For Susie O'Brien and Imre Szeman, THIS isn't just something you drink.

WHAT is coffee?

200

THIS establishment sells products based on a strong sense of "Canadian-ness".

What is TIM HORTONS?

300

THIS establishment's main selling points are "global" and "comfortable".

What is STARBUCKS?

400

Coffee helps us become better THIS in capitalism, according to the theorists we studied.

What is WORKERS? What is CONSUMERS?

500

THIS concept helps explain the "mask" that covers all of the work, transport, money, and relations that are behind a product.

What is COMMODITY FETISHISM?

Theories

100

For Marshall McLuhan, the medium is more important than THIS.

What is THE MESSAGE?

200

THIS academic field is the study or science of signs.

What is SEMIOTICS?

300

THIS concept helps explain why we continue doing what we are doing, and why we don't question capitalism.

What is IDEOLOGY?

400

In semiotics, THIS is the official word for the connotation behind an image or utterance.

What is the SIGNIFIED?

500

THIS thinker argues that "fantasy" is the highest form of ideology today.

Who is ZIZEK?

Challenges

100

Goths, emo kids, punks, skaters,  cultural and language groups are examples of THESE.

What are SUBCULTURES?

200

THIS is a category of culture that defies and resists popular culture, often politically.

What is COUNTER CULTURE?

300

THIS movement helped to create cultural activities and artifacts like Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day, etc.

What is THE ANTI-GLOBALIZATION, -CONSUMERIST OR -CAPITALIST MOVEMENT?

400

THIS is one example of a group discussed in class that started out as a counterculture, but later became a subculture.

What are HIPSTERS? What are SKATEBOARDERS? 

500

THIS CULTURAL ARTIFACT is an easily photocopiable short text, used to spread information as part of the anti-globalization movement.

What are ZINES?

Special Topics

100

THIS body type describes a fatherly figure common in sitcoms.

What is THE DAD BOD?

200

In Night Raiders, THIS historical school system is used as an allegory for a future dystopia.

What is RESIDENTIAL?

300

THIS popular dystopian TV show features a reversal of women's rights and is shot in Toronto.

What is THE HANDMAID'S TALE?

400

In the Schitt's Creek episode "Bad Parents", Johnny and Moira forget THIS important bit of information about their kids.

What are THEIR MIDDLE NAMES?

500

THIS podcast helped free Adnan Syed after 22 years in jail.

What is SERIAL?