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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
In Cultural Studies, ideology is best understood as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Ideology refers to organized meanings, assumptions and beliefs through which people understand society.
• Option B is correct because ideology shapes what appears natural, normal or legitimate.
• Ideology is connected with institutions and relations of power rather than being merely private.
• Cultural Studies examines how ideology is produced, circulated and contested.
• Option B is correct because ideology shapes what appears natural, normal or legitimate.
• Ideology is connected with institutions and relations of power rather than being merely private.
• Cultural Studies examines how ideology is produced, circulated and contested.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which thinker is most closely associated with the concept of cultural hegemony?
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Explanation:
• Antonio Gramsci developed the influential concept of hegemony.
• Hegemony explains how dominant groups secure leadership partly through consent rather than force alone.
• Louis Althusser is especially associated with ideological state apparatuses and interpellation.
• Gramsci's theory became central to Cultural Studies.
• Hegemony explains how dominant groups secure leadership partly through consent rather than force alone.
• Louis Althusser is especially associated with ideological state apparatuses and interpellation.
• Gramsci's theory became central to Cultural Studies.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Gramscian hegemony primarily refers to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hegemony is the social and cultural leadership exercised by a dominant group.
• Option C is correct because domination involves consent and persuasion as well as the possibility of coercion.
• Hegemony is never completely secure and must be continually renewed.
• Cultural institutions help make dominant values appear widely acceptable.
• Option C is correct because domination involves consent and persuasion as well as the possibility of coercion.
• Hegemony is never completely secure and must be continually renewed.
• Cultural institutions help make dominant values appear widely acceptable.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In Gramsci's theory, consent means:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Consent is the active or passive acceptance of dominant social leadership.
• Option B is correct because hegemonic values often appear reasonable, natural or in the general interest.
• Consent does not require unanimous agreement.
• It is produced through education, religion, media and other institutions of civil society.
• Option B is correct because hegemonic values often appear reasonable, natural or in the general interest.
• Consent does not require unanimous agreement.
• It is produced through education, religion, media and other institutions of civil society.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes resistance within a hegemonic order?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hegemony is incomplete and continually contested.
• Option C is correct because subordinated groups may create alternative values, interpretations and practices.
• Resistance can occur within everyday culture as well as organized political action.
• Cultural struggle is therefore central to the maintenance or transformation of power.
• Option C is correct because subordinated groups may create alternative values, interpretations and practices.
• Resistance can occur within everyday culture as well as organized political action.
• Cultural struggle is therefore central to the maintenance or transformation of power.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Louis Althusser used the term ideological state apparatuses to describe institutions such as:
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Explanation:
• Althusser identifies schools, religious institutions, families, media and cultural systems as ideological state apparatuses.
• These institutions reproduce dominant social relations largely through ideology.
• Armies, police and prisons are more closely associated with repressive state apparatuses.
• Option D is therefore correct.
• These institutions reproduce dominant social relations largely through ideology.
• Armies, police and prisons are more closely associated with repressive state apparatuses.
• Option D is therefore correct.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which of the following is an example of a repressive state apparatus in Althusser's framework?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The police belong to the repressive state apparatus because they operate primarily through coercive authority.
• The family, education and publishing operate mainly through ideological practices.
• Althusser distinguishes apparatuses by their dominant mode of functioning.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• The family, education and publishing operate mainly through ideological practices.
• Althusser distinguishes apparatuses by their dominant mode of functioning.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Interpellation refers to the process by which:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Interpellation describes how ideology addresses or hails individuals as particular kinds of subjects.
• Option D is correct because people recognize themselves within available social identities and roles.
• The process makes ideological positions appear personal and self-evident.
• Althusser uses interpellation to explain how ideology is lived through subjectivity.
• Option D is correct because people recognize themselves within available social identities and roles.
• The process makes ideological positions appear personal and self-evident.
• Althusser uses interpellation to explain how ideology is lived through subjectivity.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
According to Althusser, which institution is especially important in reproducing capitalist social relations in modern societies?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Althusser gives particular importance to the educational ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies.
• Schools transmit skills, discipline and dominant social values.
• Option B is correct because education helps reproduce labour relations and ideological conformity.
• Other institutions may also contribute, but education has a central role in his account.
• Schools transmit skills, discipline and dominant social values.
• Option B is correct because education helps reproduce labour relations and ideological conformity.
• Other institutions may also contribute, but education has a central role in his account.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
The concept of dominant ideology refers to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dominant ideology consists of meanings that help legitimize existing social arrangements.
• Option A is correct because it presents unequal relations as natural, necessary or beneficial.
• Dominant ideology may circulate through ordinary practices rather than explicit political doctrine alone.
• Institutions play an important role in sustaining it.
• Option A is correct because it presents unequal relations as natural, necessary or beneficial.
• Dominant ideology may circulate through ordinary practices rather than explicit political doctrine alone.
• Institutions play an important role in sustaining it.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which description best explains the relation between discourse and ideology?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Discourse organizes the language, categories and practices through which subjects become intelligible.
• Option D is correct because discourses may reinforce or contest dominant ideological assumptions.
• Neither discourse nor ideology can be reduced to grammar alone.
• Cultural Studies examines their relationship while recognizing differences among theoretical traditions.
• Option D is correct because discourses may reinforce or contest dominant ideological assumptions.
• Neither discourse nor ideology can be reduced to grammar alone.
• Cultural Studies examines their relationship while recognizing differences among theoretical traditions.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which institution most clearly functions as a site of cultural struggle?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Media institutions produce and circulate representations of class, race, gender and nation.
• Option D is correct because these representations can support dominant ideology or enable alternative meanings.
• Institutions are not ideologically uniform; they may contain internal conflicts.
• Cultural struggle occurs over visibility, legitimacy and interpretation.
• Option D is correct because these representations can support dominant ideology or enable alternative meanings.
• Institutions are not ideologically uniform; they may contain internal conflicts.
• Cultural struggle occurs over visibility, legitimacy and interpretation.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Gramsci's concept of hegemony gives an important role to consent.
Statement II: Hegemony is maintained through coercion alone.
Statement II: Hegemony is maintained through coercion alone.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because consent is central to Gramsci's theory of hegemonic leadership.
• Statement II is incorrect because hegemony involves a combination of consent and coercion.
• Cultural and educational institutions help produce acceptance of dominant values.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because hegemony involves a combination of consent and coercion.
• Cultural and educational institutions help produce acceptance of dominant values.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Althusser argues that ideology has a material existence in practices and institutions.
Statement II: Althusser treats ideology as a set of ideas existing only inside individual minds.
Statement II: Althusser treats ideology as a set of ideas existing only inside individual minds.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because ideology exists through rituals, institutions and repeated practices.
• Statement II is incorrect because Althusser does not reduce ideology to private consciousness.
• People live ideology through material actions such as schooling, worship and family routines.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because Althusser does not reduce ideology to private consciousness.
• People live ideology through material actions such as schooling, worship and family routines.
• Hence, option B is correct.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Hegemony must be continually renewed and defended.
Reason: Dominant meanings encounter resistance, contradiction and alternative cultural practices.
Reason: Dominant meanings encounter resistance, contradiction and alternative cultural practices.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because hegemonic leadership is never permanently secured.
• The Reason is correct because social groups may contest dominant meanings and institutions.
• Resistance and contradiction require dominant groups to modify and reproduce their leadership.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because social groups may contest dominant meanings and institutions.
• Resistance and contradiction require dominant groups to modify and reproduce their leadership.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Interpellation describes a process through which ideology produces social subjects.
Reason: Individuals recognize themselves in the identities and roles through which ideology addresses them.
Reason: Individuals recognize themselves in the identities and roles through which ideology addresses them.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because interpellation explains subject formation within ideology.
• The Reason is also correct because individuals respond to ideological identities as though those positions naturally belong to them.
• This recognition constitutes them as social subjects.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• The Reason is also correct because individuals respond to ideological identities as though those positions naturally belong to them.
• This recognition constitutes them as social subjects.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about hegemony:
1. It involves cultural and moral leadership.
2. It depends partly on consent.
3. It permanently eliminates resistance.
4. It operates through civil-society institutions.
Which statements are correct?
1. It involves cultural and moral leadership.
2. It depends partly on consent.
3. It permanently eliminates resistance.
4. It operates through civil-society institutions.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because hegemony includes cultural, intellectual and moral leadership.
• Statement 2 is correct because consent is essential to hegemonic rule.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because resistance and contradiction continue within a hegemonic order.
• Statement 4 is correct because education, religion and media help organize consent.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because consent is essential to hegemonic rule.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because resistance and contradiction continue within a hegemonic order.
• Statement 4 is correct because education, religion and media help organize consent.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about ideological state apparatuses:
1. They include education and religion.
2. They function primarily through ideology.
3. They are completely independent of the state and social power.
4. They contribute to the reproduction of social relations.
Which statements are correct?
1. They include education and religion.
2. They function primarily through ideology.
3. They are completely independent of the state and social power.
4. They contribute to the reproduction of social relations.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because education and religion are major ideological state apparatuses.
• Statement 2 is correct because their dominant mode is ideological rather than directly coercive.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because they are connected with wider structures of state and class power.
• Statement 4 is correct because they help reproduce existing social relations.
• Hence, option A is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because their dominant mode is ideological rather than directly coercive.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because they are connected with wider structures of state and class power.
• Statement 4 is correct because they help reproduce existing social relations.
• Hence, option A is correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Antonio Gramsci
2. Louis Althusser
3. Hegemony
4. Interpellation
List II
I. Ideological constitution of subjects
II. Cultural leadership through consent
III. Ideological state apparatuses
IV. Prison Notebooks
List I
1. Antonio Gramsci
2. Louis Althusser
3. Hegemony
4. Interpellation
List II
I. Ideological constitution of subjects
II. Cultural leadership through consent
III. Ideological state apparatuses
IV. Prison Notebooks
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Antonio Gramsci matches Prison Notebooks, where many of his key concepts were developed.
• Louis Althusser matches ideological state apparatuses.
• Hegemony matches cultural leadership secured through consent.
• Interpellation matches the ideological constitution of subjects.
• Therefore, option D gives the correct matching.
• Louis Althusser matches ideological state apparatuses.
• Hegemony matches cultural leadership secured through consent.
• Interpellation matches the ideological constitution of subjects.
• Therefore, option D gives the correct matching.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. School
2. Police
3. Media
4. Church
List II
I. Repressive state apparatus
II. Religious ideological state apparatus
III. Educational ideological state apparatus
IV. Communications ideological state apparatus
List I
1. School
2. Police
3. Media
4. Church
List II
I. Repressive state apparatus
II. Religious ideological state apparatus
III. Educational ideological state apparatus
IV. Communications ideological state apparatus
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• School matches the educational ideological state apparatus.
• Police matches the repressive state apparatus.
• Media matches the communications ideological state apparatus.
• Church matches the religious ideological state apparatus.
• Thus, option B provides the correct complete matching.
• Police matches the repressive state apparatus.
• Media matches the communications ideological state apparatus.
• Church matches the religious ideological state apparatus.
• Thus, option B provides the correct complete matching.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which sequence best represents the operation of interpellation?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Ideology first addresses individuals through recognizable roles, categories and expectations.
• The individual recognizes the address as referring to oneself.
• This recognition positions the individual as a social subject.
• Option A therefore presents the most accurate sequence.
• The individual recognizes the address as referring to oneself.
• This recognition positions the individual as a social subject.
• Option A therefore presents the most accurate sequence.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A school curriculum presents existing social hierarchies as natural, rewards conformity and prepares students for unequal occupational roles. This example most clearly illustrates:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The example shows education transmitting skills, discipline and dominant social assumptions.
• Option A is correct because Althusser treats the school as a major ideological state apparatus.
• The curriculum contributes to reproducing existing relations of production.
• The example therefore concerns ideology in institutional practice rather than its disappearance.
• Option A is correct because Althusser treats the school as a major ideological state apparatus.
• The curriculum contributes to reproducing existing relations of production.
• The example therefore concerns ideology in institutional practice rather than its disappearance.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A popular television programme promotes consumer success as the natural measure of personal worth, but viewers reinterpret it as a criticism of inequality. This situation best demonstrates:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The programme circulates a dominant ideology linking worth with consumer success.
• The viewers produce a resistant interpretation by reading the programme as a critique of inequality.
• Option B is correct because cultural texts may become sites of ideological struggle.
• Hegemonic meanings are preferred but not automatically accepted.
• The viewers produce a resistant interpretation by reading the programme as a critique of inequality.
• Option B is correct because cultural texts may become sites of ideological struggle.
• Hegemonic meanings are preferred but not automatically accepted.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which of the following is NOT consistent with Gramsci's theory of hegemony?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gramsci views hegemony as an active and unstable process.
• Dominant groups seek leadership through civil-society institutions.
• Subordinate groups can organize alternative or counter-hegemonic projects.
• Option C is incorrect because hegemony is never completely permanent or contradiction-free.
• Dominant groups seek leadership through civil-society institutions.
• Subordinate groups can organize alternative or counter-hegemonic projects.
• Option C is incorrect because hegemony is never completely permanent or contradiction-free.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which comparison between Gramsci and Althusser is most accurate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gramsci emphasizes hegemony, consent, civil society and cultural leadership.
• Althusser emphasizes how institutions reproduce ideology and constitute subjects.
• Option A accurately distinguishes their principal contributions while recognizing their shared concern with power.
• Neither thinker reduces social domination to physical coercion alone.
• Althusser emphasizes how institutions reproduce ideology and constitute subjects.
• Option A accurately distinguishes their principal contributions while recognizing their shared concern with power.
• Neither thinker reduces social domination to physical coercion alone.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A system of meanings and beliefs through which social reality is interpreted సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. Antonio Gramsci సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Leadership secured through a combination of consent, persuasion and coercion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: B. Acceptance of dominant leadership as legitimate or commonsensical సమాధానం: B.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. Resistance can emerge through alternative meanings, practices and collective struggles సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: D. Schools, churches, families and the media సమాధానం: D.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. The police సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Individuals are constituted as subjects through ideological recognition సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. The educational system సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Beliefs and values that support prevailing relations of power సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Discourse can organize knowledge in ways that sustain or challenge ideological relations సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. A media organization where competing representations are produced and contested సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. 1-IV, 2-III, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. 1-III, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-II సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Ideological address → recognition by the individual → assumption of a subject position సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. The educational ideological state apparatus సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. The interaction of dominant ideology and resistant interpretation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Hegemony is always total, permanent and free from contradiction సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Gramsci emphasizes hegemonic consent, while Althusser analyses institutional ideological reproduction సమాధానం: A.