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 encompassing the taste of the upper class, as theorized by Pierre (-5[1])Bourdieu (10[1])(“board-YUH”). This concept now consists of standardized goods that create a passive public through “mass deception” according to Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory of this concept’s “industry.” This concept (-5[1])is called “personality (-5[1])writ large” (10[1])in a (10[1])book on its “Patterns” by Ruth Benedict, who (-5[1])contrasted (10[1])America and Japan’s “guilt” and “shame” forms of this concept. (-5[1])For 10 points, travelers may experience “shock” (10[1])named for what concept (10[1])that encompasses the beliefs and customs (10[1])of a (10[1])people? ■END■ (10[4])

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