Media & Society
This refers to the means of communication that transmit information to large audiences.
What is media?
Discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.
What is ableism?
Contact with police, courts, or prisons.
What is criminal legal system contact?
Movement of people into a country where they are not citizens.
What is immigration?
A position in a social hierarchy.
What is status?
A widespread fear about a threat that is exaggerated or false.
What is moral panic?
A socially devalued attribute.
What is stigma?
Extremely high incarceration rates in the U.S.
What is mass incarceration?
Study of population size and changes.
What is demography?
Status you are born with.
What is ascribed status?
Theory suggesting media directly influences passive audiences.
What is the hypodermic needle theory?
A status that overrides all others in identity.
What is master status?
Social ranking system based on wealth and power.
What is social stratification?
Process of adopting another culture.
What is assimilation?
Status earned through effort.
What is achieved status?
When media selects stories and influences what people think about.
What is agenda-setting theory?
Model that views disability as caused by societal barriers.
What is the social model of disability?
Disparities in policing, sentencing, and arrests.
What is inequality in the justice system?
Policy tool used to control population demographics.
What is citizenship?
Conflicting expectations from different roles.
What is role conflict?
The process of one company owning many media outlets.
What is conglomeration?
Theory that inequality emerges through relationships and power structures.
What is relational inequality theory?
Long-term disadvantages caused by criminal records.
What is cumulative disadvantage?
Fear-based exaggeration about immigrants as threats.
What is moral panic?
Behavior expected based on status.
What is a role?