This refers to any form of media that reaches the mass of people.
What is mass media?
100
Minor transgressions of socially established norms are also known as what?
What is informal deviance?
100
A subjective awareness of common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social classes is also known as what?
What is class consciousness?
100
Which of the following is not a key belief of the FUNCTIONALIST perspective regarding MASS MEDIA?
Agent of Socialization
Media Monitoring
Enforcer of Social Norms
Conferral of Status
Promotion of Consumption
What is Media Monitoring?
100
What are the four forms of stratification?
What is slavery, caste system, estate system, and class system?
200
The belief that happiness and fulfillment can be achieved through acquisition of material possessions is also known as what?
What is hyperconsumerism?
200
This act may result in the rule breaker being labelled as "deviant" for the first time.
Primary deviance
200
The ability to exercise one's will over others that usually stems from membership in particularly influential groups, such as corporate boards of directors is otherwise known as what?
What is power?
200
"Rewards, including money and prestige, based on importance of a position and the relative scarcity of qualified personnel. It is necessary so that people will be motivated to fill important positions" is the view point of WHICH PERSPECTIVE regarding STRATIFICATION?
What is the functionalist perspective?
200
Which form of stratification states that it is based on hereditary notions of religious and theological purity?
What is the caste system?
300
The relative lack of access to the latest technologies among low-income groups, racial, and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and the citizens of developing countries is also known as what?
What is the Digital Divide?
300
This theory explains how social context and social cues impact the way individuals act.
Extra five points if you can come up with who founded this theory.
What is the "Broken Window Theory"?
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
300
Who were the working class? Who were the employing class? (In regards to Class Differentiation and Stratification)
Who are the proletariat (working class)?
Who are the bourgeoisie (employing class)?
300
The fact that human beings are prone to compete for scare resources such as wealth, status, and power is the viewpoint of WHICH perspective in regards to WHICH topic (chapter)?
(Two questions)
What is the conflict perspective? What is stratification?
300
What are the four standards of equality?
What is ontological equality, equality of condition, equality of outcome, and equality of opportunity?
400
The phenomenon in which the media provide such massive amounts of coverage that the audience becomes numb and fails to act on the information, regardless of how compelling the issue is otherwise known as what?
What is narcotizing dysfunction?
400
This theory argues that deviance occurs when a society does not give all its members equal ability to achieve socially acceptable goals. What is this theory?
Extra five points if you can come up with who founded this theory.
What is the Strain Theory?
Who is Robert Merton?
400
Whose view of class differentiation states that social relations during any period of history depend on who controls the primary mode of economic production?
Who is Karl Marx?
400
"The process by which a relatively small number of people in the media industry control what material eventually reaches the audience" is otherwise known as what? Which perspective does this idea subscribe to?
(Two questions!)
What is gatekeeping? What is the conflict perspective?
400
Which standard of equality states that everyone should have an equal starting point from which to pursue his or her goals?
What is equality of condition?
500
Give a reasonable explanation as to why you feel you do or do not have privacy in regards to media? (100 points)
The alleged lack of privacy is likely a result of what term related to mass media? (400 points)
What is (a reasonable answer)?
What is media monitoring?
500
Name the four elements of the Control Theory.
Ten extra points if you can come up with the founder of the theory!
What is attachment, involvement, commitment, and belief?
Who is Travis Hirschi?
500
Whose viewpoint states that a stratification system based on social class does not emerge because there is no real wealth to be claimed?
What is Lenski's viewpoint?
500
Which sociological perspective "promotes communication", and is "especially interested in shared understandings of everyday behavior" in regards to mass media?