CULTURAL AND MORAL ECONOMY: EXAMINATION

• Please answer 2 questions, one from each section.
• Read the questions carefully. Before answering the question, spend a few minutes to make some brief notes.
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• Please allow sufficient time to complete two questions (one hour for each question).

• Students will not be allowed to leave the room 15 minutes before the end of the examination. If you have any spare time, check over your answers.

1. Explain the following terms:

• politics of recognition;
• commodity feminism;
• Fordism;
• governmentality;
• the knowledge economy.

2. Critically assess the beneficial and harmful effects of cultural products. Please give examples.

3. Analyse advertising as immoral and exploitative as well as pleasure and freedom.

4. ‘Fashion facilitates identity, autonomy and recognition.’ Evaluate this statement.

5. Provide a critique of a) corporate culture; or b) corporate identity at work.

6. ‘Despite the trend towards economic de-regulation, leisure and public service broadcasting ought to be re-regulated.’ Examine this statement.

7. Assess the arguments for and against the reproduction of pornography and homosexuality in advanced industrial societies.

8. Critically evaluate moral economy from its competing perspectives on culture and economy.

9. Giving examples, discuss the reasons for limiting the scope of market boundaries.

10. Why are moral obligations important in liberal and advanced industrial capitalist societies? Discuss whether obligations are successfully satisfied.