Contemporary Cultural Theory Final Exam 4 June 2014

SECTION 1: 20 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

SECTION 2: 10 TERMS/CONCEPTS TO DEFINE

SECTION 3: WE WILL SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS AT RANDOM ON THE DAY, SO PLEASE BE PREPARED TO ANSWER ALL OF THEM

  1. Discuss some of the ways in which `consumption' has been studied by cultural theorists.

  1. What was/is Modernism; and how, according to some theorists, can Postmodernism be

distinguished from it?

  1. What was the decisive contribution of Clifford Geertz to the `Interpretation of Cultures', and why was it so influential?