Sociology Exam 3

Front 1

The term "screen time" refers to the amount of time people spend doing what?

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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?"

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15%

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what is the most active participation in the modern information society---those who consume information at a high rate

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omnivores

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cyberbullying

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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

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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

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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

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Serial monogamy

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Anthropologist George Murdock sampled 565 societies and found what

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over 80 percent of them had some type of polygamy

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Patrilineal descent

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Only the fathers relatives are significant in terms of property, inheritance, and emotional ties

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Matriarchy

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Women have greater authority than men

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What percent of homosexual couples met online according to a 2010 study

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61%

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What is the requirement of selecting mates outside of certain groups

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Exogamy

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Familism

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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

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Asian Americans

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Secularization

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Religious influences on other social institutions in a society

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____ is the ordinary and commonplace events of life.

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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

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Christianity

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How are Christianity and Islam alike?

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Monotheistic

Believe in prophets

Believe in afterlife

Believe in judgement day

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How are Judaism and Christianity alike?

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Monotheistic

Same sacred Middle Eastern sites

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Latent functions of religion

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unintended, covert, or hidden

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Manifest functions of religion

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open and stated functions- religion defines the spiritual world and gives meaning to the divine

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liberation theology

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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

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the transmission of knowledge

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latent function of education

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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

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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

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Christian Science

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Denomination

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A large, organized religion that is not officially linked to the state or government

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sect

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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....

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Relaxed restrictions

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Different types of authority patterns

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Patriarchy

Matriarchy

Egalitarian

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Functional perspective

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The way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability

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Conflict perspective

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Social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power

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Interactionist perspective

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Everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole

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Tracking

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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

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Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools