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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
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
Queer Theory
a new theory where ideas and identity categories that are considered as “hard set”
Jungian Archetypes
which are images and themes that come from the collective unconscious.
Who came up with the idea of Jungian archetypes
Carl Jung
Archetypes
are things that have the same meanings in different cultures. They may show up in dreams, literature, art, or religion.
Father archetype
represents an authority figure – stern and powerful.
Father is Morally Positive
he is considered a capable and protective leader.
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.
Mother archetype
represents the well-known maternal instincts – nurturing and comforting.
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
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.
Child archetype
represents a person’s views of children – full of innocence, renewed life, and salvation
Child is Morally Positive
they are considered innocent, playful, and vivacious
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.
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.
Popular Psychology
describes any and all psychological ideologies, therapies, and other techniques that gained traction through media
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
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
Tribalism
which is a popular trend that is mostly based on false, stereotypical ideas about indigenous people
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.
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.
Marxism
pushes people to challenge the established norms of certain cultural groups.
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.
Genre Theory
indicates that genres might become overly confined to all of their norms, preventing them from being varied.
Intersectionality
explains how individual characteristics such as race, class, and gender, among others, “intersect” with one another.
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.
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.
Semiotics
defined as the study of signs.
Signifier
a form that the sign takes
Signified
the concept the sign represents
Ferdinand de Saussure
offered a dyadic or two-part model of the study of signs.
Representamen
The form which the sign takes
Interpretant
the sense made of the sign
Object
to which the sign refers
Charles Sanders Peirce
was working with his own model of sign, ‘semiotic or semiosis,’ and the taxonomies of signs.
Roland Barthes
proposed the idea that there are distinct levels of signification (levels of meaning)
White Dove
a small breed of seed or fruit-eating bird (pigeon) that is commonly domesticated.
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.
Multimodality
refers to the use of various sensory and communication channels to convey meaning in a message.
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.
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.
Addition
This is the process where elements were added to represent the text even further.
Substitution
This is the process wherein there are changes or rearrangements by abstractions and generalizations in order to represent events or texts accordingly.
Evaluation
This is the process where the events and people are generalized in the text.