Deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content
Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originated in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: "[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence".[1] Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards, thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information, as in the case of popular culture.
In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1979), the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) proposed that, in a society in which the cultural practices of the ruling class are rendered and established as the legitimate culture, said distinction then devalues the cultural capital of the subordinate middle- and working- classes, and thus limits their social mobility within their own society.
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Dumbingdown is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originated...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (ISBN 086571231X) is a non-fiction book written by American teacher and political communitarian...
topics are becoming the norm. Some critics argue that popular culture is "dumbingdown": "newspapers that once ran foreign news now feature celebrity gossip...
Dumb and Dumber To is a 2014 American buddy comedy film co-written and directed by the Farrelly brothers. It is the third film in the Dumb and Dumber...
Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly, who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. It...
in Bath, Maine. Iserbyt is known for writing the book The Deliberate DumbingDown of America. The book describes how the changes gradually brought into...
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Olympics" and several non-academics had similar criticisms. Crab mentality Dumbingdown Law of Jante Procrustes The Starlit Corridor Tall poppy syndrome Harrison...
Mosley's first work of non-fiction, DumbingDown, a collection of essays and interviews on the concept of dumbingdown, was published on Imprint Academic...
"Nika!" (victory in Greek) was used as a rallying tool and nearly brought down the Byzantine Empire under Justinian I. The basis of slogans have been noted...
"Vidyut Jammwal and Arjun Rampal’s action entertainer is a cheap and dumbdown version of Squid Game". Mayur Sanap of Rediff gave 1/5 stars and wrote...
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The Edwin Black Show. Black, Edwin (April 12, 2010). "Wikipedia—The DumbingDown of World Knowledge". The Cutting Edge News. Archived from the original...
used within the field of computer science to refer to a technique of "dumbingdown" computer programs in order to deliberately introduce errors in their...
going to listen carefully" and in the latter cases that he was "not dumbingdown but smarting up" the programmes. By 2004, Radio 3's programming and services...
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Schuster. p. 254. ISBN 978-0684859071. Bloom, Harold (September 24, 2003). Dumbingdown American readers. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help) Bloom, H...
magazine folded. Tapper, Jake (July 3, 2005). "National Lampoon Grows Up By DumbingDown". The New York Times. "J2 Sells Lampoon Film Rights". Newswatch. The...
required) Tapper, Jake (July 3, 2005). "National Lampoon Grows Up By DumbingDown". The New York Times. "Death Ruled Accidental". The Vidette. Vol. 93...
writer Michael Marlowe criticized the edition, saying that it was "the dumbing-down of the Biblical text to a grade-school level" done "in keeping with the...
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Overly simplistic and repeated communications of the message are seen as dumbingdown and can meet with the cynicism of the electorate. Party line (politics)...
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