Media And Inequality

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Sociology

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Systematic study of the ways people are affected and affect the social structures and processes that are associated with the groups, organizations, cultures, societies and world in which they exist.

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Sociological Imagination

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1. People think their troubles are their own fault.

2. People fail to see the power of society to shape their lives.

3. It is society that frames our lives.

4. Mills suggested that we turn our personal troubles into social issues.

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Culture

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1. Ways of thining, feeling, acting and the material objects that form a people's way of life.

2. Encompasses the ideas, values, and material objects that allow a group even an entire society to carry out their lives in order and harmony.

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Society

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People who interact in a territory and share a culture.

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Symbol

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Anything that carries meaning recognized by people who share a culture.

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Culture Shock

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Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.

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Language

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Symbols that allows people of a culture communicate.

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Values

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Standards that are culturally defined to decide what is desirable, beautiful or good. Serve as guidelines for the culture.

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Beliefs

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Statements people hold to be true.

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Ideology

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Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.

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What is the difference between ideal culture and real culture?

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Ideal culture is what society believes to be the right way of living. Real culture is what is exactly going on.

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Multiculturalism

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A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the USA and promoting respect and equal standing for all cultural traditions.

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Socialization

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Lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.

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Prejudice

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Unfair generalization about an entire category of people. Prejudgements.

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Stereotypes

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Exaggerated description applied to every person in a category.

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Discrimination

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Unequal treatment of various categories of people.

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Social Distance

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Refers to how closely people are willing to interact with members of the same category.

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Mass Media

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The means by which few sources of information and entertainment communicate shared meanings to many people.

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Technological Perspective

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Analyzes the impact of different media technologies on social life.

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Critical Perspective

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Analyzes the mass media from the point of view of unequal and conflicting classes

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Horizontal Intergration

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Owning many companies at the same stage of media production (ex. many TV stations)

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Vertical integration

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Owning many companies at different stages of production (ex. Many TV stations and a cable company)

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Cultural Imperialism

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When American culture overwhelms other culture. (Because American programming dominates world TV)

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Immediacy

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What is happening now.

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Personalization

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Reduction to the level of individual motives.

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Extraordinariness

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Conflict or deviance

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Official News Sources

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Authoritative voices (politicians, police etc.) used to define the basic meaning of an issue.

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Ordinary News Sources

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Sources without group affiliation (eyewitnesses, victims)

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Alternative News Sources

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Reps of social movements, activist groups, advocacy groups whose viewpoints diverge from those of the dominant group.

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Disinhibition

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Weakening self control

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Desensitization

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Emotional numbing

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High Culture

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Refers to cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite.

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Popular Culture

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Describes cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population.

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Social Stratification

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A system by which a society Ranks and categorizes people in a hierarchy

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Social mobility

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A change in position in the social hierarchy.

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Caste system

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Allow little change in social position

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Class System

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Social Stratification based on both birth and individual achievement

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Meritocracy

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Concept referring to social Stratification based on personal merit. (Knowledge, abilities, effort) Has never existed in a society.

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Status inconsistency

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When your social position has inconsistent influences on your social status. Ex. Being famous but having no political power.

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Ideology

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Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements including patterns of inequality.

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Intragenerational Social Mobility

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A change in social position occurring during a person's lifetime

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Relative Poverty

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The deprivation of some people in relation/comparison to those who have more

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Feminization of poverty

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The trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poor

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Gender

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Refers to the personal yesos and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male

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Gender Stratification

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The unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between men and women

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Margaret Meads Research

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Believes that if gender is based on biological differences, people should define masculine and feminine the same. Concluded that culture is the key to gender distinction.

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Gender Roles

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Attitudes and activities that society links to people of each sex.

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Beauty Myth

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Society teaches women to measure their worth in terms of physical appearance.

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Matriarchy

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Social organization where females dominate males.

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Patriarchy

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Social organization in which males dominate females.