Understanding Modernity and the Protestant Work Ethic

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What are the key ideas associated with the Protestant work ethic?

  • Laziness, lack of drive, and irrational behavior
  • Empathy, mobile personality, and adaptation to change
  • Industriousness, frugality, and rational pursuit of economic gain (correct)
  • Social change, modernity, and adopting new ideas

Why did the US seek to prevent the spread of ideologies different from theirs after the war?

  • To maintain their dominant paradigm of modernity (correct)
  • To support the academic context of communication through propaganda
  • To promote empathy and a mobile personality worldwide
  • To impose the diffusion of innovations on other countries

Which concept relates to the idea that individuals must have a mobile personality?

  • Culture of peasantry
  • Rational beings working hard
  • Empathy = 'Mobile personality' (correct)
  • Diffusion of innovations

What does the diffusion of innovations explore?

<p>The spread of new ideas, products, and technologies through societies (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did the US turn to communication as a tool for persuasion?

<p>To counteract the impact of differing ideologies after the war (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a key role emphasized by Wilbur Schramm in mass media and national development?

<p>Government's influence (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the imperialism paradigm affect countries in terms of resources?

<p>Countries had limited resources (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a key idea highlighted by Herbert Schiller regarding US control expansion?

<p>Close link between media, government, and military (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy, what is the purpose of education for the oppressed?

<p>Encourage liberation from oppression (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of communication models, what distinguishes the participatory communication model from the modernization paradigm?

<p>Reliance on external experts and elites for development definition (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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