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Marxism – (Previous Year Questions UGC-NET English)
1. ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by:
2. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by:
3. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with:
4. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism?
5. The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur:
a. to designate the postcolonial tendency to see theory and related reading manoeuvres as a global conspiracy.
b. to describe interpretive bids that challenge and seek to overcome compartmentalized cultural experiences.
c. who, following Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, held that textual appearances are deceptive and texts do not gracefully relinquish their meanings.
d. to describe a mode of interpretation that adopts a distrustful attitude towards texts in order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings or implications.
The right combination according to the code is:
6. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of ‘base and superstructure’ in relation to literature?
7. Marxist literary criticism stresses that:
I. class is an imaginary concept
II. the economy is the final determinant of cultural production
III. texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which they were written
IV. the critic should see the work as self-sufficient
The right combination according to the code is:
8. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with _______ capitalism.
9. In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term “ideology” in The German Ideology?
10. The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with:
11. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies?
12. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by:
13. Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below:
14. “Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact.” Which one of the following is the source of this statement?
15. What was Gramsci’s term for cultural consensus supporting capitalism?
16. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
17. Which two concepts developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, have become increasingly influential in cultural studies?
(a) Dissemination
(b) Gynesis
(c) Cultural capital
(d) Habitus
Choose the correct option:
18. Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images is producing a cultural condition akin to ‘historical amnesia’?
19. Who among the following coined the dictum, “the medium is the message”?
20. Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu?
A. habitus
B. consciousness
C. desire
D. distinction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
21. What is the meaning of Ziauddin Sardar’s statement? “Cultural studies started as a dissenting intellectual tradition outside academia, dedicated to exposing power in all its cultural forms. But it has now become a discipline and a part of the academic establishment and its power structure.”
22. That humanities and the sciences were in fact “two cultures” was suggested by:
23. Which cultural analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth culture with commentary on developments in cultural theory and politics?
24. The key figures in the development of British cultural studies are:
(a) Richard Hoggart
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) Stuart Hall
(d) Lawrence Grossberg
The most appropriate option is:
25. Given below are two statements:
Statement I:
Consumption is an outcome of self-interest and a maximization of personal pleasure.
Statement II:
There are strong correlations between social status and such things as housing styles, musical tastes and food preferences.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
26. Who among the following is known to have popularized the term ‘glocalization’?
27. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A):
Cultural Studies is simply the study of culture as a discrete entity divorced from its social and political context.
Reason (R):
Cultural Studies aim to understand Culture in all its complex forms and to analyse the Social and Political context within which it manifests itself.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Historical Amnesia is a concept of Jean Baudrillad… Please correct