Exam 14: Culture

A female writer applies a well-known myth of Western culture to a novel using modern characters. Use this concept of a culture production system (CPS) to explain how this writer will market her novel to readers.

________ refers to a stage in the gift-giving process, where the giver procures an item to make some event.

Profane consumption involves consumer objects and events that are ordinary.

Pavel is an inventor. He read that there were several million people who could not sleep at night until they looked under the bed. He invented a light that could be put under the bed and went on automatically when someone looked there. Pavel's product is designed to help people perform a ________.

When Bob, a wealthy real estate investor, saw an inner city kid wearing a heavy gold chain with a medallion around his neck, Bob wanted the same for himself. Bob's behavior is best explained by the ________.

Gone With the Wind myths often take place in times of upheaval, such as war.

The second stage in the rite of passage is ________.

The Macah, a Native American tribe from the Northwest, built functional seagoing canoes that are considered works of art by modern shipbuilders. By definition, these boats would be considered ________.

A set of multiple symbolic behaviors that occur in a fixed sequence and tend to be repeated is called a ________.

A cultural production system is a ________.

Raymond Chandler wrote classic American detective stories. By always using certain roles for his characters and props that were appropriate to the genre, Chandler's novels followed a(n) ________.

Gestation is the process of gift exchange.