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Culture and Mass Media MCQ

A 2009 national endowment for the arts (nea) study reported that _____.

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Correct Answer: For the first time since 1982, the overall rate at which adults read literature had gone up

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At the end of the copyright period, a creative work such as a book or song becomes ______.

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Correct Answer: Available for public use free of charge

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Pollsters construct a sample in the second step of a scientific poll in order to _____.

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Correct Answer: Find a group to represent the universe

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It is important for political leaders to understand public opinion because public opinion _____.

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Correct Answer: Reflects the most popular view of the people

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Hyperreality is Mass reproduction of images and realities leading to a culture where language and images are separated completely, and reproductions of reality are more real than the reality they intend to produce.

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Correct Answer: True

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The abstract and general standards in society that define ideal principles, such as those governing notions of right and wrong are called _____.

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Correct Answer: Values

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Powerful mores, the violation of which is considered serious and even unthinkable within a particular culture are called ____.

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Correct Answer: Taboos

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Cultural groups that exist within another, larger culture is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Subcultures

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How members of the upper class ensure that their children maintain their status is known as

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Correct Answer: Social Class Reproduction

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Copies of objects and things that have no reality in the first place are called ____.

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Correct Answer: Simulacra

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The values, norms, and behaviors that people in a society actually embrace and exhibit is called Real culture.

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Correct Answer: True

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A social culture that provides an environment conducive to rape that blames victims for their victimization is called Rape culture.

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Correct Answer: True

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The entertainment, culinary, and athletic tastes shared by the masses is called ____ culture.

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Correct Answer: Popular

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The abstract creations of human cultures, including language, ideas about behavior, and social practices is called _____ culture.

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Correct Answer: Non material

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The ideal of ____ is that people respect differing cultures in a society and honor their unique contributions to a larger, “umbrella” culture that incorporates multiple subcultures .

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Correct Answer: Multiculturalism

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Widely held beliefs about what is considered moral and just behavior in society is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Mores

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The physical objects that are created, embraced, or consumed by society that help shape people’s lives is called Material culture.

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Correct Answer: True

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Media of public communication intended to reach and influence a mass audience is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Mass media

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Codified norms or rules of behavior are called Laws.

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Correct Answer: True

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A series of symbols used to communicate meaning among people is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Language

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The values, norms, and behaviors that people in a society profess to embrac is called ____ culture.

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Correct Answer: Ideal

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Music, theater, literature, and other cultural products that are held in particularly high regard in society is called ____

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Correct Answer: High culture

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The internalization of objective probabilities and subsequent expression of those probabilities as choice is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Habitus

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A type of culture—some would say U.S. culture— that has spread across the world in the form of Hollywood films, fast-food restaurants, and popular music heard in virtually every country is called Global culture.

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Correct Answer: True

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Rules of behavior for common and routine interactions is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Folkways

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The perspective of the outside observer is called ____ perspective

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Correct Answer: Etic

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The perspective of the insider, the one belonging to the cultural group in question is called ____ perspective

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Correct Answer: Emic

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The beliefs, norms, behaviors, languages, and products common to the members of a particular group that bring meaning to their social worlds is called _____

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Correct Answer: Culture

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A contradiction between the goals of ideal culture and the practices of real culture is called _____ inconsistency

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Correct Answer: Cultural

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Wealth in the form of knowledge, ideas, verbal skills, and ways of thinking and behaving is called Cultural capital.

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Correct Answer: True

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