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Psychology

defined as the scientific study of the mind and behavior, actively involved in studying and understanding the various mental processes, brain functions, and behavior of humans

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Popular Culture

the accumulation of all its elements capable of sustaining and perpetuating itself based on the endorsement and participation of the people through their own volition

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Queer Theory

a new theory where ideas and identity categories that are considered as “hard set”

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Jungian Archetypes

which are images and themes that come from the collective unconscious.

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Who came up with the idea of Jungian archetypes

Carl Jung

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Archetypes

are things that have the same meanings in different cultures. They may show up in dreams, literature, art, or religion.

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Father archetype

represents an authority figure – stern and powerful.

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Father is Morally Positive

he is considered a capable and protective leader.

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Father is Morally Negative

he is considered a dictator – a man that is manipulative, cold, and with a grandiose vision of transcending beyond the material world.

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Mother archetype

represents the well-known maternal instincts – nurturing and comforting.

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Mother is Morally Positive

considered a caring mother, full of love and acceptance. She will defend anyone who hurt her loved ones with equal ferocity

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Mother is Morally Negative

is the wicked mother, neglectful and conceited. She is stubborn and obsessive and will think of nothing else but to satisfy her own agendas.

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Child archetype

represents a person’s views of children – full of innocence, renewed life, and salvation

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Child is Morally Positive

they are considered innocent, playful, and vivacious

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Child is Morally Negative

they are considered naïve, ignorant, and over-dependent. They will never act on their own because they know someone else will provide for them.

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Affect Theory

a way to think about culture, history, and politics that looks at things that aren't words. make us who we are, but they aren't always under our control or even in our awareness.

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Popular Psychology

describes any and all psychological ideologies, therapies, and other techniques that gained traction through media

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Identity Erosion

Perhaps the most worrisome aspect of popular culture is that the success of some icons and trends stems from the notion that some of the working class begin to lose themselves to the icons and/or trends they wholeheartedly follow, to the point of devotion

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Self-Erosion

occurs because when a person is busy with something in their life, their sense of self begins to identify with the ones they poured themselves in

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Tribalism

which is a popular trend that is mostly based on false, stereotypical ideas about indigenous people

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Culturalism

Individuals are shaped by their culture, and these cultures make up closed organic wholes. The individual can't leave his or her culture but can only see himself or herself in it, not outside of it.

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Marxism

two (2) groups: those that people have made themselves, like folk art or stories, and those that were made for them, like commercial TV, advertising, arcade video games, and music.

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Marxism

pushes people to challenge the established norms of certain cultural groups.

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Postmodernism

rejects universal explanations and instead focuses on the relative truths of each individual. all about interpretation; reality is merely what we make of it.

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Genre Theory

indicates that genres might become overly confined to all of their norms, preventing them from being varied.

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Intersectionality

explains how individual characteristics such as race, class, and gender, among others, “intersect” with one another.

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Fan Theories

interpretations of work by fans that are debated, compared, and shared in various fan communities. They forecast or deduce future content, explain particular occurrences, or provide other viewpoints.

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Headcanon

a form of discourse where a fan shares the probable origin or cause of something despite the lack of evidence in a source material, which the author had unintentionally or deliberately left behind for theory crafting.

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Semiotics

defined as the study of signs.

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Signifier

a form that the sign takes

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Signified

the concept the sign represents

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Ferdinand de Saussure

offered a dyadic or two-part model of the study of signs.

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Representamen

The form which the sign takes

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Interpretant

the sense made of the sign

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Object

to which the sign refers

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Charles Sanders Peirce

was working with his own model of sign, ‘semiotic or semiosis,’ and the taxonomies of signs.

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Roland Barthes

proposed the idea that there are distinct levels of signification (levels of meaning)

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White Dove

a small breed of seed or fruit-eating bird (pigeon) that is commonly domesticated.

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Multimodality

linguists study not only language but also visual features and elements such as images, color, the layout of pages, and even material objects and architecture.

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Multimodality

refers to the use of various sensory and communication channels to convey meaning in a message.

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Recontextualization

This indicates that in some texts, when some elements are changed, replaced, removed, or simplified, there is a presumed idea recontextualization has taken place.

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Deletion

This is the process wherein some aspects are deleted in any social practice (such as people, action, setting, etc.) as no representations in social practice can represent all the aspects of it.

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Addition

This is the process where elements were added to represent the text even further.

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Substitution

This is the process wherein there are changes or rearrangements by abstractions and generalizations in order to represent events or texts accordingly.

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Evaluation

This is the process where the events and people are generalized in the text.