Study guide for final exam
Social Problems
CHAPTER 6 - MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
1. What is “McDonaldization”?
2. Who is more likely to use the Internet?
3. The country with the most number of cell phones is?
4. Neil Postman worries that television does what?
5. What are the niches that the new radio fills?
6. William Eveland and Dhavan Shah argued what?
7. According to the text, your own biases are likely to be shaped by what?
8. Covert and Wasburn compared partisan and non-partisan magazines in terms of how they discussed key issues of crime and poverty. What did they find?
9. In his research, Christopher Kollmeyer found that during a low point in the economy, media did what?
10. According to economist Daniel Sutter, big businesses are what?
11. What is true concerning women and their representation in the media?
12. The shrinking of the world through technology is known as what?
CHAPTER 8 -POLITICS
13. What were the three sources of authority identified by Max Weber?
14. John F. Kennedy had a combination of types of leadership. Although he was the president of the United States, he also inspired people to get involved with their country’s programs through his inspirational speeches. President Kennedy combined which two sources of authority?
15. The Democratic party of the United States supports what?
16. The McCain-Feingold-Cochran reform bill seeks to control what?
17. What concept refers to a political system in which power resides in the hands of the citizens?
18. A totalitarian political system does what?
19. Describe how the U.S. population behaves politically?
20. Know about interlocking directorates.
21. Know about conflict theory.
22. Know about functionalism.
23. Know about symbolic interactionism.
24. A power-elite model of the U.S. political system suggests what?
CHAPTER 5 - AGING: SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF GROWING OLD
25. According to the text, ageism is likely to ___________ due to the growing population of older individuals.
26. Know about ageism.
27. Since 1900, life expectancy has increased around the world. This is mostly due to what?
28. Know about activity theory.
29. Know about continuity theory.
30. According to Thomas R. Cole, attitudes toward health caused people to regard the elderly as what?
31. What are forms of elder abuse?
32. “Aging in place” refers to what?
33. According to Charles H. Cooley, people develop a sense of self through what?
34. Older people strive for continuity in their lives. Nowhere is this more obvious than where?
35. Know about Medicare.
36. Which state endorsed the Death with Dignity Act?
37. Know about disengagement theory.
38. Know about conflict theory.
39. Know about euthanasia in the Netherlands.
40. Know about the rate of poverty among the elderly.