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The term "screen time" refers to the amount of time people spend doing what? |
watching tv, playing games, and surfing the internet |
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What percentage of Americans is off the modern information network or "off the net?" |
15% |
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what is the most active participation in the modern information society---those who consume information at a high rate |
omnivores |
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cyberbullying |
The use of electronic media (web pages, social networking sites, e-mail, instant messengers, and cell phones) to tease, harass, threaten, or humiliate someone
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Communities developing around common interests or shared identities that are emerging online is referred to in the text as
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Tribalism |
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The function of media advertising is to support the economy, provide information about products, and underwrite media costs associated with:
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Promotion of consumption |
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A dysfunction of media promotion of product consumption would be what
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Increasing awareness of environmental issues |
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The process by which a relatively small number of people control what eventually reaches the audience is referred to as
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Gatekeeping
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The U.S. government was heavily criticized for which of the following media monitoring behaviors after the September 11, 2001, attacks?
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Authorizing wiretaps of U.S. citizens telephone conversations |
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In Africa, only 4 percent of the population has Internet access. According to the textbook, how much do they typically pay per month for their connection?
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$250 to $300 a month |
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Which of the following statements concerning media portrayal of gender roles would the feminist perspective most likely endorse?
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Women are portrayed as needing to be rescued by males |
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Who predicted over 40 years ago that the rise of electronic media would create a "global village," thereby reducing physical distance barriers?
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Marshall McLuhan |
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Family |
Defined as a set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed relationship, or adoption, who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society |
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Know the different types of family |
Nuclear Family Extended Family |
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_______ is a form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses, but one at a time |
Serial monogamy |
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Anthropologist George Murdock sampled 565 societies and found what |
over 80 percent of them had some type of polygamy |
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Patrilineal descent |
Only the fathers relatives are significant in terms of property, inheritance, and emotional ties |
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Matriarchy |
Women have greater authority than men |
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What percent of homosexual couples met online according to a 2010 study |
61% |
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What is the requirement of selecting mates outside of certain groups |
Exogamy |
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Familism |
Refers to pride in the extended family |
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Cohabition is least common among which racial or ethnic group in the United States |
Asian Americans |
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Secularization |
Religious influences on other social institutions in a society |
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____ is the ordinary and commonplace events of life. |
Profane |
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What does Durkheim believe about religion and functions?
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It is a collective act that includes many forms of behavior in which people interact with others |
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What is the single largest faith in the world |
Christianity |
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How are Christianity and Islam alike? |
Monotheistic Believe in prophets Believe in afterlife Believe in judgement day |
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How are Judaism and Christianity alike? |
Monotheistic Same sacred Middle Eastern sites |
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Latent functions of religion |
unintended, covert, or hidden |
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Manifest functions of religion |
open and stated functions- religion defines the spiritual world and gives meaning to the divine |
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liberation theology |
Use of a church, primarily Roman Catholic, in a political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice from a secular society |
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manifest function of education |
the transmission of knowledge |
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latent function of education |
transmitting culture, promoting social and political integration, maintaining social control, and serving as an agent of change |
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What did Karl Marx suggest about religion |
that it impeded social change by encouraging oppressed people to focus on otherworldly concerns rather than on their immediate poverty or exploitation |
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What religion is not patriarchal |
Christian Science |
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Denomination |
A large, organized religion that is not officially linked to the state or government |
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sect |
A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it considers the original vision of the faith |
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The 2003 FCC ruling was significant because it.... |
Relaxed restrictions |
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Different types of authority patterns |
Patriarchy Matriarchy Egalitarian |
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Functional perspective |
The way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability |
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Conflict perspective |
Social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power |
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Interactionist perspective |
Everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole |
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Tracking |
The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria |
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Hidden curriculum |
Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools |