Key Words #1 (from first reading)

Justin Purvis

8/19/09

Hum-120

Keywords

(From Handout)
Mnemonic Socialization- A process that usually takes place when a person enters a new social environment that teaches a person how to remember events in history. This process can make a person acquire views on events or subjects that could be irrational or incorrect in a moral sense, but because of that persons social environment their view on the subject seems to be correct. For example when a person enters a new church their views of that church seem to transfer and show in the views of that person, even if a person had different views before entering that church. Overall mnemonic socialization is unavoidable and human nature in a sense that it shapes a person into adapting to their environment.

(From Reading)
Culture- Culture is a group of characteristics one gathers after living in a physical social environment and interacting with the people of that environment. It goes deeper than just traditions a person gains due to the area there from. It’s the type of personality they have due to socializing with other people of that culture and having their ideas and beliefs reflect on them. A culture shapes not only a person’s views on subjects but how they analyze and judge any subject or event that they have to think about. A persons culture overall determines the way a person acts, thinks, looks, and lives to the point where it turns into a natural way of life.

Key Words

Justin Purvis
Hum-120
8/23/09
KeyWords

Informing popular culture- The act of how multi mass medias inform people of other types of lifestyles and popular culture going on within society. These mass media’s communicate forms of alternative culture and hybrid lifestyles to its viewer.

National Popular- This term was derived from the writings of Marxist, Antonio Gramski. National Popular refers to the connection of economical structure of a nation to its superstructure consisting of its values and beliefs in terms of politics, culture, education, and religion. Overall the National Popular raised many questions as to how culture operates within a society.