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Social Inequality and Media Representation MCQ

Gilens’ (1996) study of images in major newsmagazines and networks found what?

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Correct Answer: The majority of poor people pictured were Black.

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The growing presence of homosexuality in the media indicates that society is discarding the ideologies of gender and heteronormativity.

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Correct Answer: False

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Researchers say that the portrayal of class on television tends to perpetuate what myth?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Sitcoms that feature working class families on TV often depict the competence and intelligence of working-class men.

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Correct Answer: False

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Content analyses of media products have repeatedly shown them to accurately reflect the realities of the social world.

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Correct Answer: False

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Many Americans are not seeing the growing diversity of mass media because ______.

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Correct Answer: There is a growing segmentation of media audiences

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What do the authors say is the link between social inequality and mass media?

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Correct Answer: Creators of media content often reproduce the inequalities that exist in society.

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In recent decades, most media have begun to include more representations of minorities because ______.

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Correct Answer: Advertisers are interested in reaching the growing minority market

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Recent studies show that, while disparaging portrayals of women athletes in sports news have declined, the overall amount of coverage of women’s sports on television has declined.

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Correct Answer: True

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The focus on individualism, rather than collective action, in the media leads to the disparagement of labor unions in the media over the years.

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Correct Answer: True

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Researchers assess the significance of media content by linking it to ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Newspapers may make it more difficult for poor people to buy their product because ______.

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Correct Answer: Newspapers can improve their demographic profile for advertisers by having more affluent readers

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As defined by Robert Entman, the “compound of hostility, rejection, and denial on the part of Whites toward the activities and aspirations of Black people” is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Modern racism

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Early portrayals of homosexuals in the media often depicted them as ______.

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Correct Answer: Murder victims and comic devices

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Which of these is true about women and the media?

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Correct Answer: One out of 10 TV programs has no women writers on staff.

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