Aesethics

Study Guide for Midterm 4, Aesthetics

Desmond and Emirbayer: 8. Aesthetics

SOC 206

1. Know examples of the aesthetic field

2. How do movies, photographs, music videos, and so many other cultural goods influence what we think about and how we think about it?

3. Know about art during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

4. Know about material used by neoclassical European and American sculptors.

5. Know about minstrel shows.

6. Know about Amos ‘n’ Andy.

7. Know about the Harlem Renaissance.

8. Know about the world of high fashion.

9. Know about country music.

10. Know about ethnic plastic surgery.

11. Know about Abercrombie and Fitch.

12. Know about the white aesthetic.

13. Know examples of rejection of certain art forms as coded language.

14. Know about the racist aesthetic.

15. Know about antiracist art.

16. Know about Trisha Rose, author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.

17. Why has hip-hop turned away from its political roots?

18. What are examples of “merchandising dissent”?

19. Know about winners in the category of Best Director at the U.S. annual Academy Awards for film.

20. What are examples of naïve art?

21. What are examples of a “un-stereotype”?

22. Know about Spanish radio.

23. Psychologists show that when given a choice between a white or black doll, African-American preschool and elementary school children are more likely to choose which doll?

24. Know about the banjo.

25. Bethany Bryson

26. Compared to people who are fairly tolerant of other racial groups, people who harbor racial prejudice are more likely to reject what?

27. Why do white kids love hip-hop?

28. Is cultural appropriation always bad?

29. What kind of effect might racist appropriation have?