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

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