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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 18

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Question 1:

Before widespread literacy, information was communicated from person to person through which medium?
a) Storytelling
b) The printing press
c) Newspapers
d) Visual symbols

Question 2:

What region of the world has the highest percentages of internet users?
a) Asia
b) Europe
c) North America
d) Africa

Question 3:

In Canada, what difference strongly affects internet usage?
a) Race
b) Ethnicity
c) Gender
d) Income

Question 4:

What 2010 event was used as a base for a case study about how the use of social media platforms shaped activist communication?
a) Toronto G-20 Summit
b) Vancouver Olympics
c) Canadian Election
d) The Super Bowl

Question 5:

Sociologists have traditionally been interested in what issue?
a) Social inequality
b) Social influence
c) Social ecology
d) Social stratification

Question 6:

Facebook and Grindr are examples of which of the following?
a) Popular culture
b) Social networking sites
c) Search engines
d) Social media

Question 7:

What gives individuals access to others outside of their immediate close circle?
a) The Internet
b) Social media
c) Social value
d) Social capital

Question 8:

Internet-based personal connections can be important in the formation of which of the following?
a) Strong ties
b) Kinship ties
c) Negative ties
d) Weak ties

Question 9:

What refers to the value assigned to social networks between socially heterogeneous groups?
a) Value capital
b) Evaluative capital
c) Heterogeneous capital
d) Bridging social capital

Question 10:

According to Humphreys, what does the use of mobile phones create during a face-to-face interaction?
a) Concurrent talk
b) Call-and-response
c) Cross-talk
d) Subversive outlets

Question 11:

The recent explosion in the use of social media has played a significant role in redefining the boundaries of community.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Canadians use search engines very little, with only 42 per cent reporting weekly visits to search engine sites.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Until the turn of this century, the main media of mass communication were unidirectional, flowing from publisher or broadcaster to the consumer.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Twitter was one of the most important social media platforms used during the G-20 protest.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Men are significantly more likely than women to visit social networking sites daily.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The internet appears to mirror and even intensify what is going on around us in our “co-present” interactions.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Social networking has stronger effects on the sociability of persons under the age of 30.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Micro-level social interaction rituals have also been established for mediated interactions.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

One of the biggest ways to slip up in a social interaction is to occupy an indeterminate status.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Research from Burkell et al. concluded that participants view and treat online social networks as private, not public, venues.
a) True
b) False