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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 17

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Question 1:

What is mass culture?
a) An automatic or passive activity
b) The non-commercial aspect of production and consumption
c) Exactly the same popular culture
d) A cultural phenomena produced for mass consumption

Question 2:

Mass media transmits which of the following?
a) Participatory culture
b) Collectivism
c) Group think
d) Popular culture

Question 3:

What term is used today to refer to how dominant groups in society exercise their intellectual and moral leadership?
a) Hegemony
b) Dogma
c) Propaganda
d) Ideology

Question 4:

Historian Holt Parker turned to the work of which theorist in an attempt to better understand the meaning of popular culture?
a) Karl Marx
b) Max Weber
c) Emile Durkheim
d) Pierre Bourdieu

Question 5:

What social movement introduced residential segregation based on social class?
a) The French Revolution
b) The Post-Industrial Revolution
c) The American Revolution
d) The Industrial Revolution

Question 6:

Which of the following relationship types are multi-directional and superficially social because of the short amount of time spend on each relationship?
a) Many-to-one
b) One-to-many
c) Many-to-many
d) One-to-one

Question 7:

What is the process whereby companies can produce goods and services that are modified on demand to meet individual customer’s needs with near mass production efficiency?
a) Mass customization
b) Collaborative customization
c) Adaptive customization
d) Cosmetic customization

Question 8:

According to data for 2014, how many hours do Canadians spend, on average, watching television a week?
a) 5 hours
b) 9 hours
c) 21 hours
d) 27 hours

Question 9:

What is the term for the emerging trend of watching television and using the Internet simultaneously?
a) Multi-viewing
b) Mobile subscription
c) Mass consumption
d) Dual screening

Question 10:

In Paquette and de Guise’s study of the content of television programming at major Canadian television networks between 1993 and 2001, what increased by 378 per cent?
a) Physical violence
b) Sexual content
c) Psychological violence
d) Sexual violence

Question 11:

Popular culture is forced on an unwilling population.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Raymond Williams called culture one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

There are those who claim that once a work of graffiti has been removed from its original context, it ceases to be authentic, popular culture.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Those who use the term “mass culture” want to make sure that popular culture is identified as commercial culture.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

For Bourdieu, the consumption of culture has the social function of legitimizing social differences.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

In a 2008 study, Nielson researchers found that it was rare for people to watch TV and use the Internet simultaneously.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

In his summation of the trial of James Bulger’s murderers, Justice Morland suggested that “exposure to violent videos” could have been partly to blame for the crime.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Violence has only recently played a role in entertainment.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

By the time children are two, they understand that television is make-believe.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Girls' favourite shows, films, and video and computer games are as high in violence as boys’ favourite entertainment media.
a) True
b) False