Media and Technology
Before social media, major TV networks and newspapers had strong control over which stories reached the public; this is called this.
What is gatekeeping?
This federal program provides academically focused preschool to children from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
What is Head Start?
Trading one good directly for another without money is called this.
What is bartering?
This theory holds that human ingenuity and innovation can solve problems related to population growth and food supply.
What is cornucopian theory?
A purposeful, organized group working toward a common social goal is called this.
What is a social movement?
This term means the spread of technology across borders.
What is technological diffusion?
This term refers to the learning of academic facts and concepts.
What is formal education?
This economic policy was based on accumulating wealth in gold and silver by controlling markets through colonies, tariffs, and customs charges.
What is mercantilism?
This term refers to the maximum population or level of activity an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
A group like the Human Rights Campaign, which works within the existing system to expand rights and change laws, is this type of social movement organization.
What is a reform movement?
The worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas is called this.
What is media globalization?
Malik’s experience with museums, opera, and international travel gives him this educational advantage.
What is cultural capital?
When a company replaces U.S. workers with workers in New Delhi, it is engaging in this practice.
What is outsourcing?
Poor communities being disproportionately exposed to pollution and environmental hazards is called this.
What is environmental racism/classism?
The success of a large, well-funded advocacy group like PETA is best explained by this theory.
What is resource mobilization theory?
The quick shift from floppy disks to zip drives to flash drives is an example of this model of technological development.
What is the evolutionary model of technological change?
This perspective argues that education reinforces and perpetuates inequalities based on class, race, gender, and ethnicity.
What is conflict theory?
A country that was once communist but now allows limited private ownership and market pricing has this kind of economy.
What is a market socialist economy?
These are communities located beyond the suburbs, often attracting residents who want more space while still staying connected to the city.
What are exurbs?
This Supreme Court case reaffirmed the principle that each person’s vote should count equally.
What is Reynolds v. Sims?
This perspective is most interested in who controls media and how dominant groups minimize the presence of lower classes and marginalized races in media.
What is conflict theory?
When Kara is labeled “troubled” and eventually lives down to that label, this sociological perspective would be most interested in her case.
What is symbolic interactionism?
High unemployment in Tennessee even while many jobs are available in Washington, D.C., is an example of this kind of unemployment.
What is structural unemployment?
In urban sociology, this model explains city growth as a series of rings spreading outward from the center.
What is the concentric zone model?
When social movements connect their goals to those of other movements and merge their efforts, they are using this process.
What is frame alignment?