Due to ______, popular social media such as Facebook are becoming increasingly significant claims-making arenas.
A. culturally resonant themes
B. media frames
C. instances of moral panic
D. user-generated media content
Answer: D
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Gender shapes the language we use because
a. men typically use male pronouns to describe possessions such as cars or boats. b. women's traditional titles are often more positive than men's. c. the English language tends to treat what is masculine as having more value than what is feminine. d. men are as likely to take a woman's name after marriage as women are to take a man's name.
Which one of the following is true about reference groups?
a. A person has to be a member of reference group to be influenced by its standards. b. A group to which someone once belonged cannot be a reference group. c. People use the standards of a reference group to evaluate themselves. d. A group to which someone hopes to belong cannot be a reference group.
Durkheim believed that
a. competitiveness as a human trait was shaped and extended by capitalism. b. widely shared agreement on a set of basic values across an major social groups was essential to keep a complex social system intact. c. the problems of modem society can best be solved by a return to greater self-sufficiency. d. the objective of sociologists was to build up an imposing body of empirical fact, method, and verified conclusion so that government policymakers could, then, take the appropriate action.
When situations in everyday life appear to be fair but in reality reproduce racial or ethnic inequality, this is termed:
a. laissez-faire racism. b. institutionalized racism. c. reverse discrimination. d. a self-fulfilling prophecy.