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sociology Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which medium experiences the least amount of gatekeeping? | The internet |
| The way the members of an audience interpret the media is often influenced by social characteristics such as occupation, race, education and income | True |
| In the U.S one out of every four women is considered obese. How many characters are portrayed as obese on television | 3 out of 100 |
| Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the meadows influence on society from the micro level to determine how social behavior is shaped? | Interactionist Perspective |
| The function of media advertising is to support the economy, provide information about products, and underwrite costs associated with | Promotion of consumption |
| The term media monitoring is used most often to refer to | Interest groups monitoring of content |
| The process by which relatively small number of people control what eventually reaches the audience is referred to as | Gatekeeping |
| what term do we use for the flow of content across multiple media and the accompanying migration of media audiences | cultural convergence |
| The mass media seldom collect and define facts for their audiences because most media presentations reflect the values and orientations of the audiences themselves | False |
| Around the world, the introduction of new technology has created new social norms | true |
| What socialist perspective would be most likely to focus on gatekeeping as a process that reflects a desire to maximize profits by those with power and authority | Conflict perspective |
| Which of the following statements concerning media portrayal of gender roles would the feminist perspective most likely endorse | Women are often portrayed as being in need of rescue by males |
| Twenty-two percent of viewers who watch the super bowl do so only for the commercials | False |
| Which of the following terms refers to the phenomenon whereby massive amounts of coverage results in the audience become numb and failing to act on the information regardless of how compelling the issue was presented | Narcotizing dysfunction |
| The increase in the use of mass media, specifically electronic media, has allowed for abuses of personal privacy | True |
| The media often reaffirm proper behavior by showing what happens to people who violate social expectations | True |
| Sociologist Paul Lazarfeld | Pioneered the study of opinion leaders in his research on violating behavior in the 1940's |
| sociologist Robert Park studied | Newspapers and immigrants |
| Which sociologist pioneered research on opinion leaders | Paul Lazarsfeld |
| Bureacucrazation is | The process by which a group, organization, or social movment becomes increasingly bureaucratic |
| Role exit is defined as | The process of disengagement from a role that is central to ones self identity and the re establishment of an identity in a new role |
| The PRIMARY group is a small group that is | characterized by intimate, face to face association and cooperation |
| Age is an achieved status | False |
| Reference group is a term used to sociologist when speaking of a group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior | True |
| Gender is an ascribed status | True |
| A group to which people feel they do not belong is called a(n) | Out-group |
| Which sociological perspective suggests that a society or relativity permanent groups much accomplish certain tasks if it is to survive | Functionalist perspective |
| Which term is used to refer to incompatible expectations that arise when the same person hold two or more social positions | Role conflict |
| Which of the following is likely to be a primary group | The members of a neighborhood softball team |
| Which of the following is true of obesity in regards to social ties? | Weight gain in one person is often related to weight gain of that person's friends and family. |
| Which of the following can be defined as the long-term trends in societies resulting from the interplay of continuity, innovation, and selection? | sociocultural evolution |
| A social network is | a series of social relationships that link a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people. |
| Which type of group is most important for socialization? | Primary groups |
| Which of the following is most likely to be a secondary group? | the members of the United Nations General Assembly |
| Which sociological perspective emphasizes that social roles contribute to a society's stability by enabling members to anticipate the behavior of others and to pattern their own actions accordingly? | functionalist perspective |
| Social interaction is | the ways in which people respond to one another. |
| The term social control refers to | Techniques and stratifies fro preventing devient human behavior in any society |
| Social control carried out by authorized agents—such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers—is called | formal social control. |
| In Robert Merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic regulations can be classified as | ritualists |
| Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the association between the use of surveillance techniques as a means of social control and the power of an authoritarian government? | conflict perspective |
| What type of informal social control is supported by 59 percent of pediatricians in spite of the risk of harmful effects to recipients? | corporal punishment |
| Control theory states that we | are bonded to our family members, friends, and peers in a way that leads us to follow the mores and folkways of our society. |
| Crime is a violation of | criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority. |
| Crime that occurs across multiple national borders is known as | transnational crime. |
| Which sociologist created an interactionist/conflict explanation of deviance that emphasizes that the response to an act—not the behavior—determines deviance? | Howard Becker |
| "Deviance defines the limits of proper behavior." This statement represents the view of which sociological perspective? | functionalist perspective |
| Which sociological perspective would be particularly concerned about studies that show that White criminal offenders receive shorter sentences than comparable Latino and African American offenders? | conflict perspective |
| The most common adaptation in Robert Merton's anomie theory of deviance is | conformity. |
| In Émile Durkheim's view, | the punishments established within a culture help to define acceptable behavior and thus contribute to social stability. |
| In his anomie theory of deviance, Robert Merton | described five types of deviance. |
| Dave, the president of a small corporation, has a wild weekend. He spends a night with a prostitute, gambles illegally, drinks excessively, and uses drugs. Some would argue he has committed various | victimless crimes. |
| A corporate vice president is convicted of attempting to bribe a presidential aide. This type of crime is called | white-collar crime. |
| Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the stigmatizing nature of formal social controls that require convicted sex offenders to register with police agencies and have their pictures published in newspapers to make their identi | interactionist perspective |
| According to crime statistics, hate crime focus most frequently on which of the following? | race |
| Obedience refers to | compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. |
| Which of the following is true of white-collar crime? | Conviction generally does not harm the person's reputation or career aspirations as much as conviction for a street crime would. |
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