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In the United States, we expect cab drivers will know how to get around a city. This expectation is an example of which of the following? |
social role |
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What occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person? |
role conflict |
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Which sociological perspective argues that the present organization of social institution is no accident? |
conflict perspective |
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Max Weber developed which type of bureaucracy? This type reflected the most characteristic aspects of all human organizations. |
Ideal type |
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In Gerhard Lenski's theory of socioculture evolution, this was critical to the way it was organized to society? |
Technology |
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The mass media increase social cohesion by presenting a more or less standardized, common view of culture through mass communication. This statement reflects which perspective? |
Functionalist perspective |
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In his study of how the social composition of audience members affected how they interpreted the news coverage of riots in Los Angeles in 1992, sociological Darnell Hunt found what kind of differences in perception? |
Racial |
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Sociological Paul Lazarsfeld and his colleagues pioneered the study of |
Opinion leaders |
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Which sociological perspective is especially concerned with the media's ability to decide what gets transmitted through gatekeeping? |
Conflict perspective |
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Gatekeeping, the process by which a relatively small number of people control what material reaches an audience, is largely dominant in all but which of the following media? |
Internet |
