Culture and Mass Media MCQs
Culture and Mass Media MCQs
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1: Wealth in the form of knowledge, ideas, verbal skills, and ways of thinking and behaving is called Cultural capital.
A. True
B. False
2: A contradiction between the goals of ideal culture and the practices of real culture is called _____ inconsistency
A. Cultural
B. Geographical
C. Religious
D. None of these
3: The beliefs, norms, behaviors, languages, and products common to the members of a particular group that bring meaning to their social worlds is called _____
A. Culture
B. Religion
C. Sect
D. Belief
4: The perspective of the insider, the one belonging to the cultural group in question is called ____ perspective
A. Emic
B. Etic
C. Mores
D. Taboo
5: The perspective of the outside observer is called ____ perspective
A. Etic
B. Folkways
C. Taboo
D. Mores
6: Rules of behavior for common and routine interactions is called _____.
A. Folkways
B. Mores
C. Laws
D. Taboos
7: 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.
A. True
B. False
8: The internalization of objective probabilities and subsequent expression of those probabilities as choice is called _____.
A. Habitus
B. Habit
C. Doxa
D. Capital
9: Music, theater, literature, and other cultural products that are held in particularly high regard in society is called ____
A. High culture
B. Popular culture
C. Real culture
D. Non material culture
10: The values, norms, and behaviors that people in a society profess to embrac is called ____ culture.
A. Ideal
B. Popular
C. Real
D. Nonmaterial
11: A series of symbols used to communicate meaning among people is called _____.
A. Language
B. Dialect
C. Parole
D. Linguistics
12: Codified norms or rules of behavior are called Laws.
A. True
B. False
13: Media of public communication intended to reach and influence a mass audience is called ____.
A. Mass media
B. Social media
C. Media studies
D. New media
14: The physical objects that are created, embraced, or consumed by society that help shape people’s lives is called Material culture.
A. True
B. False
15: Widely held beliefs about what is considered moral and just behavior in society is called _____.
A. Mores
B. Folkways
C. Norms
D. Taboo
16: 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 .
A. Multiculturalism
B. Pluralism
C. Diversity
D. Assimilation
17: The abstract creations of human cultures, including language, ideas about behavior, and social practices is called _____ culture.
A. Non material
B. Rape
C. Real
D. Popular
18: The entertainment, culinary, and athletic tastes shared by the masses is called ____ culture.
A. Rape
B. Popular
C. Real
D. Nonmaterial
19: A social culture that provides an environment conducive to rape that blames victims for their victimization is called Rape culture.
A. True
B. False
20: The values, norms, and behaviors that people in a society actually embrace and exhibit is called Real culture.
A. True
B. False
21: Copies of objects and things that have no reality in the first place are called ____.
A. Simulacra
B. Simulation matrix
C. Simulation graph
D. None of these
22: How members of the upper class ensure that their children maintain their status is known as
A. Class maintenance
B. Class Status
C. Social Class Reproduction
D. Social Class status
23: Cultural groups that exist within another, larger culture is called _____.
A. Subcultures
B. Counter culture
C. Co-culture
D. Dominant culture
24: Powerful mores, the violation of which is considered serious and even unthinkable within a particular culture are called ____.
A. Taboos
B. Mores
C. Values
D. Graphicals
25: The abstract and general standards in society that define ideal principles, such as those governing notions of right and wrong are called _____.
A. Values
B. Digits
C. Numericals
D. Graphs
26: 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.
A. True
B. False
27: It is important for political leaders to understand public opinion because public opinion _____.
A. Reflects the most popular view of the people
B. More valuable to the person or company that owns the copyright
C. Protected from use by anyone other than the author or creator
D. Available for public use with the payment of a royalty fee
E. Available for public use free of charge
28: Pollsters construct a sample in the second step of a scientific poll in order to _____.
A. Find a group to represent the universe
B. More valuable to the person or company that owns the copyright
C. Protected from use by anyone other than the author or creator
D. Available for public use with the payment of a royalty fee
E. Available for public use free of charge
29: At the end of the copyright period, a creative work such as a book or song becomes ______.
A. More valuable to the person or company that owns the copyright
B. Protected from use by anyone other than the author or creator
C. Available for public use with the payment of a royalty fee
D. Available for public use free of charge
E. A target for online piracy
30: A 2009 national endowment for the arts (nea) study reported that _____.
A. For the first time since 1982, the overall rate at which adults read literature had gone up
B. Often geared toward a particular field and have to be special ordered, like law or medical books
C. Of the cheap machine-made pulp paper they were printed on
D. They were less expensive and could cover topical issues immediately.
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