Which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the functions of the mass media and conferring status on people organizations and public issues?

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Which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the function of the mass media in conferring status on people organizations in public issues?
Which sociological perspective would likely contend that the role of the mass media is to provide socialization?
Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the media's influence?
Which of the following would the functionalist perspective most likely view?

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Question	Answer
Which medium experiences the least amount of gatekeeping?	The internet
The way the members of an audience interpret the media is often influenced by social characteristics such as occupation, race, education and income	True
In the U.S one out of every four women is considered obese. How many characters are portrayed as obese on television	3 out of 100
Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the meadows influence on society from the micro level to determine how social behavior is shaped?	Interactionist Perspective
The function of media advertising is to support the economy, provide information about products, and underwrite costs associated with	Promotion of consumption
The term media monitoring is used most often to refer to	Interest groups monitoring of content
The process by which relatively small number of people control what eventually reaches the audience is referred to as	Gatekeeping
what term do we use for the flow of content across multiple media and the accompanying migration of media audiences	cultural convergence
The mass media seldom collect and define facts for their audiences because most media presentations reflect the values and orientations of the audiences themselves	False
Around the world, the introduction of new technology has created new social norms	true
What socialist perspective would be most likely to focus on gatekeeping as a process that reflects a desire to maximize profits by those with power and authority	Conflict perspective
Which of the following statements concerning media portrayal of gender roles would the feminist perspective most likely endorse	Women are often portrayed as being in need of rescue by males
Twenty-two percent of viewers who watch the super bowl do so only for the commercials	False
Which of the following terms refers to the phenomenon whereby massive amounts of coverage results in the audience become numb and failing to act on the information regardless of how compelling the issue was presented	Narcotizing dysfunction
The increase in the use of mass media, specifically electronic media, has allowed for abuses of personal privacy	True
The media often reaffirm proper behavior by showing what happens to people who violate social expectations	True
Sociologist Paul Lazarfeld	Pioneered the study of opinion leaders in his research on violating behavior in the 1940's
sociologist Robert Park studied	Newspapers and immigrants
Which sociologist pioneered research on opinion leaders	Paul Lazarsfeld
Bureacucrazation is	The process by which a group, organization, or social movment becomes increasingly bureaucratic
Role exit is defined as	The process of disengagement from a role that is central to ones self identity and the re establishment of an identity in a new role
The PRIMARY group is a small group that is	characterized by intimate, face to face association and cooperation
Age is an achieved status	False
Reference group is a term used to sociologist when speaking of a group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior	True
Gender is an ascribed status	True
A group to which people feel they do not belong is called a(n)	Out-group
Which sociological perspective suggests that a society or relativity permanent groups much accomplish certain tasks if it is to survive	Functionalist perspective
Which term is used to refer to incompatible expectations that arise when the same person hold two or more social positions	Role conflict
Which of the following is likely to be a primary group	The members of a neighborhood softball team
Which of the following is true of obesity in regards to social ties?	Weight gain in one person is often related to weight gain of that person's friends and family.
Which of the following can be defined as the long-term trends in societies resulting from the interplay of continuity, innovation, and selection?	sociocultural evolution
A social network is	a series of social relationships that link a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Which type of group is most important for socialization?	Primary groups
Which of the following is most likely to be a secondary group?	the members of the United Nations General Assembly
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that social roles contribute to a society's stability by enabling members to anticipate the behavior of others and to pattern their own actions accordingly?	functionalist perspective
Social interaction is	the ways in which people respond to one another.
The term social control refers to	Techniques and stratifies fro preventing devient human behavior in any society
Social control carried out by authorized agents—such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers—is called	formal social control.
In Robert Merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic regulations can be classified as	ritualists
Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the association between the use of surveillance techniques as a means of social control and the power of an authoritarian government?	conflict perspective
What type of informal social control is supported by 59 percent of pediatricians in spite of the risk of harmful effects to recipients?	corporal punishment
Control theory states that we	are bonded to our family members, friends, and peers in a way that leads us to follow the mores and folkways of our society.
Crime is a violation of	criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime that occurs across multiple national borders is known as	transnational crime.
Which sociologist created an interactionist/conflict explanation of deviance that emphasizes that the response to an act—not the behavior—determines deviance?	Howard Becker
"Deviance defines the limits of proper behavior." This statement represents the view of which sociological perspective?	functionalist perspective
Which sociological perspective would be particularly concerned about studies that show that White criminal offenders receive shorter sentences than comparable Latino and African American offenders?	conflict perspective
The most common adaptation in Robert Merton's anomie theory of deviance is	conformity.
In Émile Durkheim's view,	the punishments established within a culture help to define acceptable behavior and thus contribute to social stability.
In his anomie theory of deviance, Robert Merton	described five types of deviance.
Dave, the president of a small corporation, has a wild weekend. He spends a night with a prostitute, gambles illegally, drinks excessively, and uses drugs. Some would argue he has committed various	victimless crimes.
A corporate vice president is convicted of attempting to bribe a presidential aide. This type of crime is called	white-collar crime.
Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the stigmatizing nature of formal social controls that require convicted sex offenders to register with police agencies and have their pictures published in newspapers to make their identi	interactionist perspective
According to crime statistics, hate crime focus most frequently on which of the following?	race
Obedience refers to	compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Which of the following is true of white-collar crime?	Conviction generally does not harm the person's reputation or career aspirations as much as conviction for a street crime would.

Which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the function of the mass media in conferring status on people organizations in public issues?

A structural functionalist would probably focus on what social purposes technology and media serve.

Which sociological perspective would likely contend that the role of the mass media is to provide socialization?

Sociology chapter 6.

Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the media's influence?

Among the major sociological perspectives of functionalism, conflict theory, interactionism, and the feminist perspective, conflict theorists would be most likely to suggest that the mass media serve a useful function in society by bringing members together in a collective experience.

Which of the following would the functionalist perspective most likely view?

Functionalist Perspective Someone taking a functional perspective will most likely view work and the economy as a well-oiled machine, designed for maximum efficiency.

Which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the functions of the mass media and conferring status on people organizations and public issues?

Which sociological perspective would be most likely to focus on the function of the mass media in conferring status on people organizations in public issues?

Which sociological perspective would likely contend that the role of the mass media is to provide socialization?

Which sociological perspective is more likely to study the media's influence?

Which of the following would the functionalist perspective most likely view?

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