COMM101 Midterm

Freud

Which of these people was known for coming up with the concept of the Oedipus complex, the id/ego/super ego, and believed that women experienced "penis-envy"?

1. Husserl

2. Heidegger

3. Zuckerberg

4. Freud

Facebook is Facebook

How would author Taina Bucher best describe Facebook?

1. Facebook is a social media platform

2. Facebook is political propaganda

3. Facebook is Facebook

4. Facebook is a reunion of everyone you've ever met

True

True or False - Phenomenology deals with both presence and absence at the same time.

Noumena

Which of these words describes objects/things itself?

1. Noumena

2. Phenomena

3. Nonmena D. Prolegomena

Medium/Middle

What does the Latin word "Communicatio" represent?

1. Outside

2. Medium/Middle

3. Inside

4. Opposite Side

True

True or False - People had feared communication due to the use of propaganda and people influencing others.

Indicate and Question, Return, Elucidate and Explicate

What are the three steps of the Phenomenological Method used to examine experience?

1. Encoding, Medium of Transmission, Decoding

2. Previewing, Studying, Revising

3. Critical Listening, Decision Making, Experimenting

4. Indicate and Question, Return, Elucidate and Explicate

True

True or False - Critical theory would argue that people are written by culture more than they write it.

True

True or False - Chad Engelland would argue that it is silly to equate relationality and relativity.

Husserl believes we perceive "the real thing" in all its reality

David Hume believes we perceive mental images instead of the "real thing". What does Husserl believe?

1. Husserl agrees with Hume

2. Husserl believes we perceive "the real thing" in all its reality

3. Husserl believes we cannot perceive mental images nor "the real thing"

4. None of the above

True

True or False - Sociologists believe the "self" can be thought of as a central mechanism through which the individual and the social world intersect.

Performances

Erving Goffman considers the "self" to be "developed out of _________"

1. Profiles

2. Performances

3. Pictures

4. Proclamations

True

True or False - Heidegger's work Being and Time was received poorly by his mentor Edmund Husserl.

False

True or False - A phenomenologist believes that consciousness can be separated from the body.

False

True or False - The original intent with which Facebook was created was to make it a social networking site.

Town square

living room

In a letter to the public, Mark Zuckerberg once compared Facebook as shifting from a ______ to a ________.

1. Town square

living room 2. Town square

social media platform 3. Social media platform

town square 4. Instant messaging service

photo stream

Edmund Husserl

Which Phenomenologist puts the most emphasis on logic?

1. Martin Heidegger

2. Max Manen

3. Edith Stein

4. Edmund Husserl

False

True or False - For a phenomenologist, transcendental experience is identical to what we would call normal experience.

Unconscious

Which one of the following is NOT a focus of phenomenology?

1. Experience

2. Embodiment

3. Truth

4. Consciousness

5. Unconscious

True

True or False - Sociologists argue that within children's play, we can detect the imitation of adult actions that lead to experimentation of the self.

All of the Above

Sociology demonstrates the need to look at the impact of what in regard to the making of the self?

1. Other people

2. Cultural Forms

3. Moral Norms

4. All of the Above

WeChat

What main competitor has Facebook been trying to confront with their emphasis on communication?

1. Instagram

2. WeChat

3. Snapchat

4. TikTok

Freud

Who laid the foundation for an understanding of the self as radically divided, fractured, and ambivalent?

1. Nietzsche

2. Aristotle

3. Schiller

4. Freud

False

True or False - Phenomenology focuses primarily on the idea of geography.

True

True or False - Husserl argues that we must "return to things in themselves"

WEAKNESSES

One of the STRENGTHS or WEAKNESSES of the "transmission" model of communication is that it is linear and one-way

False

True or False - Chad Engelland states that phenomenology should focus less attention on the "shared world of presence"

True

True or False - Phenomenology should allow people to find normality in human life.

Rene Descartes

Who came up with the saying "I think therefore I am"?

1. Rene Descartes

2. Sigmund Freud

3. Edmund Husserl

4. Violet's dad

all of these

Phenomenology is concerned with:

1. experience

2. flesh

3. appearance

4. all of these

More

A phenomenologist would argue that science needs MORE or LESS wonder

Is

According to our book's author Chad Engelland, phenomenology IS or IS NOT concerned with discovering "truth" in our perception of things and the world.

Does

Phenomenology DOES or DOES NOT concern itself with ordinary objects and trivial matters.

Out in the world

For a phenomenologist, where is experience?

1. in our heads

2. at our fingertips

3. out in the world

False

True or False - Perception and our senses are those aspects of our embodiment that phenomenology says we must learn to disregard.

Both

"Intentionality" for a phenomenologist is located in:

1. human consciousness

2. things themselves

3. both

4. neither

True

True or False - For phenomenology, the notion of "being-with-others" is more central than "being-by-one's self"

Pipe

In the opening pages of Chapter 4 in Phenomenology, author Chad Engelland discusses a painting by Rene Magritte entitled "This is not a ______"

1. song

2. pipe

3. cat

4. farewell

5. knot

Words

For phenomenology, which gets us closer to grasping some object or thing?

1. Image

2. Words

As they are

Phenomenology works to show us things:

1. as they are

2. as they aren't

See

Phenomenology wants us to be able to SEE or FORGET the relation among things

Against

Phenomenology argues FOR or AGAINST truth as something that must be defined scientifically.

Opens

Truth in phenomenology is something that OPENS or CLOSES the world to us.

False

True or False - Phenomenology asks that we reject "seeming" (i.e. appearance) if we want to fully understand "being".

Its feet are missing

Engelland discusses a replica of Rodin's sculpture The Thinker. What is wrong with it?

1. it has oxidized because of humidity

2. its feet are missing

3. it is winking at you

4. racoons live inside it

True

True or False - According to author Chad Engelland, for a phenomenologist our experience of life is both outward and inward.

Do

Although he tries to nuance Heidegger's distinction between rocks, animal, and humans -- along with their respective worlds, Engelland argues that humans DO or DO NOT transcend their environment.

True

True or False - Engelland also says humans are different from stones and animals because we contemplate the authenticity of our existence.

The life world

Which one does the phenomenologist favor more?

1. the life world

2. the scientific object

Face

Engelland discusses a Jewish phenomenologist, Emmanurl Levinas, in a WWII prison camp who finds the experience of responsibility and vulnerability in the _________ of another person.

1. style

2. face

3. clothes

4. mood

5. stance

It gives sight!

Which would be closest to the phenomenologist's view of love?

1. It's blind!

2. It gives sight!

With suspicion

According to Engelland, a phenomenologist would consider "altruism":

1. the highest good

2. with suspicion

Yes, true.

Pope John Paul II was a phenomenologist!

1. Yes, true.

2. What? No

MORE

According to Husserl, experience was MORE or LESS than subjective feelings.

hell yeah!

"Return to things in themselves" - Husserl says:

1. hell yeah!

2. hell no!

True

True or False - Heidegger was handpicked by Husserl to be his successor in the study of phenomenology

More

Heidegger focused much MORE or LESS on the "human" aspect of phenomenology than Husserl did.

nothing

Heidegger said that phenomenology was the study of NOTHING or EVERYTHING or SOMETHING

Stayed at

Heidegger FLED FROM or STAYED AT his post at a German university when Hitler came to power

both

Most phenomenologists that our author discusses want to account for

1. essence

2. experience

3. both

interpretation

"Hermeneutics" focuses on what aspect of phenomenology?

1. interpretation

2. sense perception

3. lying

more

Our author concludes by saying that phenomenology should pay MORE or LESS attention to the "shared world of presence"

True

True or False - According to author Chad Engelland, we (humans) have lost the capacity to experience things with deep interest but phenomenology can help us to recover this capacity.

Meditative

Engelland argues that phenomenology is fundamentally MEDITATIVE or MYSTICAL in its thinking

provoke

Phenomenology tries to DISCOUNT or PROVOKE wonder, according to Engelland

can

Phenomenology argues that we CAN or CANNOT find wonder in the "ordinary" if everyday life

Does

Phenomenology DOES or DOES NOT have a method for arriving at the truth of experience.

Both

Phenomenology argues that you need to pay close attention to PRESENCE or ABSENCE or BOTH

suspend judgement

In phenomenology, the term "epoche" is defined as the ability to:

1. suspend judgement

2. hold two ideas in tension

3. leap into the void of life

4. touch the earth

Respect

Phenomenology wishes to RESPECT or DISREGARD philosophical traditions and concepts

anxiety

What emotional state pre-occupied Martin Heidegger the most?

1. wonder

2. joy

3. anxiety

4. humility

Facebook is Facebook

Which one of these vies of Facebook is closest to author Taina Bucher's view?

1. Facebook is Facebook

2. Facebook is dead

3. Facebook is mainly a social network site

global power broker

Bucher is more interested in Facebook as a:

1. global power broker

2. a friends network

True

True or False - According to Bucher, Facebook is an atmosphere that we can feel even if we are not on it.

orientation

Bucher takes, what she calls an ORIENTATION or EVASIVE approach to Facebook.

myth

Bucher tends to take "origin stories and insider accounts" of Facebook as:

1. truth

2. myth

travel guide

Bucher compares her analysis of Facebook's operation as akin to a:

1. Travel guide

2. restaurant rating system

disagree

"Facebook is a public square". Bucher would AGREE or DISAGREE with this statement.

topological

Bucher sees any mapping of Facebook as

1. territorial

2. topological

yes!

Facebook needs to be seen as multiple. Bucher says:

1. yes!

2. no!

making mud pies

In the opening anecdote in the reading from Concepts of the Self, what do the parents see their kids doing in this backyard?

1. building a stick fort

2. making mud pies

3. teasing the neighbor's dog

inter-relational

for sociologists, the "self" is understood more as:

1. a private domain

2. inter-relational

symbolic

George Herbert Mead's theory of "__________ interaction" pays attention to the how language and gestures of others gives shape to the self.

1. linguistic

2. representative

3. symbolic

4. denotative

5. fabricated

different from

For Mead, the "I" of interaction was SYNONYMOUS WITH or DIFFERENT FROM the "me"

much

Mead's work is sometimes criticized for giving too MUCH or LITTLE attention to the self's rationality and conscious actions.

a performance

Erving Goffman's sociology was an attempt to understand the "self" as:

1. a performance

2. unconscious desire

3. antagonistic

4. a folder

much

Goffman is sometimes critiqued for giving too MUCH or LITTLE attention to the self as focused upon managing impressions in different social situations.

reflexively

Anthony GIdden argued the self as REFLEXIVELY or UNCONSCIOUSLY engaging with social institutions as a means to order one's life.

weird but true!

Mark Zuckerberg sees a time when Facebook will move away from being a public social media platform towards a private messaging system.

1. weird but true!

2. false! no way

more

In Zuckerberg's future vision of Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp will become much LESS or MORE central to the user experience.

False

True or False - Zuckerberg has never deviated from Facebook's original mission of connecting and publicly sharing.

adopted

Our author Taina Bucher argues that Facebook has mostly ADOPTED or AVOIDED the "California ideology" of openness/sharing and technological utopianism.

True

True or False - From the beginning, Facebook has embraced the ethos of "the hacker" as independent and creative, not as destructive and lawbreaking.

True

True or False - Author Taina Bucher finds that the corporate philosophy of Facebook is not just symbolic but also part of the architecture of their workplace and their office design.

too much pressure and stilted

Facebook's workplace culture enforces connection and sociality. Taina Bucher describes it as:

1. too much pressure and stilted

2. balanced and healthy