What Do Functionalists Argue About Popular Culture

question 65

Multiple Choice

What do functionalists argue about popular culture?

• A) It serves as the glue that holds society together.
• B) It can glorify things like crime,which undermines core cultural values rather than reinforces them.
• C) In the form of television and the Internet,it helps integrate recent immigrants into the mainstream culture.
• D) It can homogenize long-term residents as a result of seeing the same images and being exposed to the same beliefs and values.

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

Therapeutic orientation developed by Sigmund Freud that employs free association, dream analysis, and transference to uncover repressed feelings.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Undesirable Behaviors

Actions or responses that are considered negative, harmful, or unwanted by society or specific groups within it.

Group Therapy

Treatment modality in which 5–10 people with the same issue or concern meet together with a trained clinician.