Directions: Answer five (5) of the following eight (8) questions with a brief essay.  Illustrate your
answer with examples from class readings, discussions, films and texts.  Explain how each
example supports your answer.  Each question is worth 8 point for a total of 40.  You have until 5:00 pm today (12/19) to finish and email me your answers.

1. South Korea is a country very much in the grip of contending forces associated with
“globalization.”  Discuss “globalization” in Korea using two (2) examples.

2. Earlier in this semester we characterized “culture” as more of an argument than a consensus.
Discuss, using two (2) examples from “Herders of Mongun-Taiga.”

3. Why is “overconsumption” a source of worry for some groups in South Korea?  Discuss,
illustrating your answer with two (2) examples.

4. There are many varieties of marriage and post-marital residence throughout the world.  Discuss
two (2) using examples from “Dadi’s Family” and “Herders of Mongun-Taiga.”

5. It may possible to characterize marriage in the United States as “hypergynous.”  Define what
“hypergyny” means and discuss using examples drawn from class.

6. We have defined “ideology” as “An articulated system of meanings, values and beliefs of a kind
that can be abstracted as the worldview of any social grouping.”  Discuss “consumer nationalism”
in South Korea in terms of this definition.

7. Laura Nelson’s fieldwork of consumption in South Korea overlaps in many ways with our class
project, “Consuming Spaces.”  Discuss one (1) similarity and one (1) difference between your
work and Nelson’s.  Explain . . .

8. “Attack the Gas Station” is fictional, but--amidst a stereotypical “gangster” film--attempts to
portray current social; problems in South Korea.  Discuss two (2) of those problems with
reference to Laura Nelson’s work.