Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
A. The narcotizing dysfunction of the media was identified in the 1980s after the deluge of cable news programming.
B. Massive amounts of information tend to numb and desensitize an audience.
C. The numbing effect of the narcotizing dysfunction may prevent people from taking action in response to compelling issues.
D. Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton created the term narcotizing dysfunction.
A. The narcotizing dysfunction of the media was identified in the 1980s after the deluge of cable news programming.
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Cases of isolated children like Anna indicate:
a. the natural ability of children to develop human survival skills. b. the complete inability of children to recover from early deprivation. c. the existence of a relatively fixed human nature. d. that isolation inevitably causes mental retardation. e. the importance of interaction for normal human development.
Which one of the following questions do conflict theorists ask to highlight the problems with the functional perspective of social stratification?
a. How can we attract the best qualified people to fill the most functionally important positions? b. Will the most qualified people be attracted to the less functionally important occupations? c. How much inequality in salary is really necessary to ensure that people choose the most important positions in society? d. Why do the disadvantaged lack the motivation to acquire the training needed to fill the most important positions in society?
The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is:
a. African Americans. b. Hispanics. c. whites. d. Asians.
Officer Matthews sees two cars speed by. According to the meter, the drivers were each going ten miles per hour over the speed limit. One driver has light-colored skin, and the other has dark-colored skin. Officer Matthews pulls over the darker-skinned driver based his hunch that the driver must be up to no good despite there being no objective differences other than skin color. Matthews is using
A. good judgment. B. racial profiling. C. neutral policing. D. randomness.