View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, what do Skinheads use to represent their principle of masculinity?
(a) Boots.
(b) Violence.
(c) Money.
(d) Guns.

2. What method is used to facilitate the mass society's understanding of subcultures?
(a) It is "domesticated."
(b) The subculture becomes the dominant culture.
(c) There is a formal training about it.
(d) The government enacts laws.

3. Hebdige says white participants in subcultures have the opportunity to do what?
(a) Take a dominant role in the mass culture.
(b) Overthrow all black subcultures.
(c) Take a marginal role in the dominant culture.
(d) Overthrow the mass culture.

4. How does George Jackson view the language used by the mass culture?
(a) It might be corrupted.
(b) It is obsolete.
(c) It is used to turn the participants of the dominant culture against each other.
(d) It is currently in transition.

5. Of the following, which can be used as a symbol of style?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Education.
(c) Make-up.
(d) Religion.

6. What does Hebdige say "incites a cultural fear of further hidden transgressions"?
(a) Playful styles.
(b) Perverse styles.
(c) Poverty styles.
(d) Profanity styles.

7. According to Hebdige, if a black participant no longer wishes to be associated with a subculture, he/she can then do which of the following?
(a) Take a marginal role in the dominant culture.
(b) Take a dominant role in the mass culture.
(c) Overthrow all white subcultures.
(d) Overthrow the mass culture.

8. What does Hebdige say handicaps blacks?
(a) Mental abilities.
(b) Nothing. They have the same opportunities as whites.
(c) Economical capacity.
(d) Racial prejudice.

9. In order to promote their value of masculinity, which of the following do Skinheads use?
(a) Braces.
(b) Suspenders.
(c) Denim.
(d) Afros.

10. Punks are known for embracing which of the following?
(a) Strong tie to Britain's history.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Sexual puritanism.
(d) Peace and harmony.

11. What individual does the following quote reflect upon, ". . . lives a life of diversion, subversion and dissent, concerned less with what the signs say than in how their meaning might be changed"?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Barthes.
(c) Genet.
(d) George Jackson.

12. In terms of language, what do Punks focus on?
(a) Punks have taken a vow of silence, and therefore do not utilize verbal language to communicate.
(b) The actual meaning of the words being communicated.
(c) A combination of the process and actual meaning of language.
(d) The process of communication rather than the meaning of that which is being communicated.

13. Which of the following is another word for "science of the concrete"?
(a) Bricolage.
(b) Expression.
(c) Norms.
(d) Physics.

14. Which of the following terms does Nuttal use to describe a rocket jacket?
(a) Cyclical.
(b) Asymmetrical.
(c) Symmetrical.
(d) Economical.

15. Which objects do Punks use to promote who they are?
(a) Nothing. They are less concerned with objects and more concerned about the controversy they generate.
(b) Music.
(c) Trench coat.
(d) Mohawk hairstyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebdige says that style can be be identified through which of the following?

2. Which of the following represents a product style?

3. What does Hebdige say could have caused the outbreak of violence between subcultures?

4. According to Chapter 6, subcultures usually involve transgressions of what?

5. Of the following, which is defined as a "diverse set of signifiers which are likely to change from moment to moment"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 526 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample