Round 3: 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 encompassing the taste of the upper class, as theorized by Pierre Bourdieu (“board-YUH”). This concept now consists of standardized goods that create a passive public through “mass deception” according to Adorno and Horkheimer’s (10[2]-5[1])theory of this concept’s “industry.” (-5[1])This concept is called “personality writ (-5[1])large” in a book on its “Patterns” by Ruth Benedict, who contrasted America and Japan’s “guilt” and “shame” (10[1])forms (10[1])of this concept. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])travelers may experience “shock” named for what concept that encompasses (10[1])the beliefs and customs of a people? ■END■ (10[1])

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