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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?

The spread of new ideas, products, and technologies through societies Signup and view all the answers

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

To counteract the impact of differing ideologies after the war Signup and view all the answers

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

Government's influence Signup and view all the answers

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

Countries had limited resources Signup and view all the answers

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

Close link between media, government, and military Signup and view all the answers

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

Encourage liberation from oppression Signup and view all the answers

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

Reliance on external experts and elites for development definition Signup and view all the answers