Round 4: Tossup 12

Stuart Hall founded a center for the “studies” of this concept at the UK’s University of Birmingham. This concept names a type of capital (10[1])encompassing the taste of the upper class, as theorized by Pierre (10[1])Bourdieu (“board-YUH”). This concept (-5[1])now consists of standardized goods that create a passive public through “mass deception” according to Adorno and Horkheimer’s (10[1])theory of this concept’s “industry.” This concept is called (-5[1])“personality writ large” (10[1])in a book on its “Patterns” by Ruth Benedict, (10[1])who contrasted America and Japan’s (-5[1])“guilt” and “shame” forms (10[1])of this concept. For 10 points, travelers may experience “shock” named for what concept (10[1])that encompasses the beliefs and customs of a people? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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