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CMN 3109 Midterm Test: Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and the Frankfurt School, Exams of Communication

A series of questions and answers covering key concepts in communication studies, focusing on the frankfurt school, habermas' public sphere theory, and critical theory. it explores the critiques of habermas' work, the ideas of key theorists like adorno and horkheimer, and the nature of theory itself. The questions delve into the historical context of these theories and their implications for understanding modern society and communication.

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2024/2025

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CMN 3109 MIDTERM TEST WITH
SOLUTION
Public Sphere was introduced in - ANSWER 1962
According to Habermas, the public sphere is the sphere of - ANSWER private
individuals assembled in a public for the "public use of reason"
the key feature in modern societies? - ANSWER Change
Critique on Habermas' Public sphere CMRM - ANSWER 1. Class based 2. Male
dominated 3. Racially based 4. mini public spheres
Heidegger Ideals - ANSWER language, the question of being and domination
of science and calculated reason
Cultural Industries (CPC) - ANSWER have a cultural role in creating,
producing and commercializing contents
Small group of philosophers under Adorno and Hork. - ANSWER critical
theorists
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CMN 31 09 MIDTERM TEST WITH

SOLUTION

Public Sphere was introduced in - ANSWER 1962 According to Habermas, the public sphere is the sphere of - ANSWER privateindividuals assembled in a public for the "public use of reason"

the key feature in modern societies? - ANSWER Change Critique on Habermas' Public sphere CMRM - ANSWER 1. Class based 2. Maledominated 3. Racially based 4. mini public spheres

Heidegger Ideals - ANSWER language, the question of being and dominationof science and calculated reason

Cultural Industries (CPC) - ANSWER have a cultural role in creating,producing and commercializing contents

Small group of philosophers under Adorno and Hork. - ANSWER criticaltheorists

Superstructure - ANSWER politics, culture and philosophy How did Fschool differ from Marxism - ANSWER they didn't believe the baseshould decide superstructure because it contradicted itself

Authoritarianism is the horizon of - ANSWER modernity Fschool replaced positive reason with - ANSWER instrumental reason positive reason - ANSWER Two types of societies - ANSWER 1. dominated by institutional frame

  1. dominated by work Primiative - ANSWER societies that don't develop state apparatus Human actions are coordinated by - ANSWER speech and language use Validity claim - ANSWER to justify ones deeds and words to others

Feyerbend - ANSWER theory is ideological Foucault - ANSWER theories are the strategies of intervention Kuhn - ANSWER theory depends on a paradigm Truth is produced by? - ANSWER power - knowledge is a tool we use tomake sense of the information we are given

theories are forms of - ANSWER organized knowledge paradigm 1 - ANSWER attitude, objects ad methods that a community ofresearchers consider as valid at a give period of time

paradigm 2 - ANSWER identifies the problem that can be treated by a certainmethod

paradigm 3 - ANSWER anomalies define the limits of the paradigm Frankfurt School of thought - ANSWER theorist concerned by a phenomenonand who share

what Fschool theorist share (PPTI) - ANSWER command definition ofphenomenon, the problems to resolve, the techniques and the institutional place fschool divide - ANSWER 1. administrative and critical Administrative - ANSWER behavioral and functional critical theories - ANSWER view the media as a tool that circulate ideologiesof the elites

Debate and habermas - ANSWER each given opinion Habermas was the RA for - ANSWER Adorno Habermas says the public sphere emerges with - ANSWER public society CMRM critique on Habermas public spheres - ANSWER class, male, racial andmini public spheres