SOCIOLOGY 101 UPDATED SCRIPTED EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Janice Radway - ✔✔_________ _________: author, Reading the romance: Women,
Patriarchy and Popular literature (1987) argued that women exhibit a great deal of
indivdual agency when reading romance novels, which helps them cope with their daily
lives in patriarchal society by providing both escapes from the drudgery of everyday life
and alternative scripts to their readers.
✔✔Herbert Gans - ✔✔________ _________: Author of Deciding whats News, All media
is biased, not simply 'the facts are the facts.'
✔✔Four possible effects of media - ✔✔Short term intended: Cereal ads
Short term unintended: increased violence in children who play violent video games
Long term intended: stop smoking ads
Long-term unintended: Decentitized to violence and sexual imagry
✔✔Racism in the Media - ✔✔Time Magazine stating the physical traits of Japanese in
an article called "How to tell your friends from the Japs"
Differences between African American Katrina victims 'looting a grocery store' in the
media
vs
White family 'finding bread in a grocery store'
✔✔Barry Glassner - ✔✔Author, The culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the
Wrong things (1999): As a culture, we are grossly exaggerating the frequency of rarely
occurring events often through amplification of a single instance through media
repetition.
IE: redirecting our attention to systemic political, social, and economic issues towards
sensational but rare things like terrorist attacks and school shootings.
✔✔Dawn Currie - ✔✔_______ ________, Canadian Sociologiest, while girls can read
these mags critically, they cant select the images in them.
✔✔Jean Kilbourne - ✔✔_________ ____________ Director, Killing us softly:
Advertising Image of Women, examines media in which women are maimed, slices,
raped and otherwise deformed in advertising images.
These images help sustain violence against women.
✔✔Naomi Klein - ✔✔Author, NO Logo: taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, 2000, analyzes
the growth of advertising in schools.
, ✔✔Culture Jamming - ✔✔The act of Turning Media against itself (Adbusters - IE Joe
Chemo)
✔✔Craig Calhoun - ✔✔_________ __________, Social scientist, wrote Dictionary of
the Social Sciences. Defined the word Socialization as The process through which
individuals internalize the values beliefs and norms of a society and learn to function as
its member
✔✔Agents of Socialization - ✔✔1) Family
2) School
✔✔Five conclusions learne from Anna, the girl who was isolated from birth - ✔✔1) Her
inability to develop past an "individual level of mentality.... is largely the result of social
isolation"
2) "It seems almost impossible for any child to learn to speak think and act like a normal
person after a long period of isolation
3) When she is compared with other cases of isolated children, the similarities "seem to
indicate that the stages of socialization are to some extent necessarily related to the
stages of organic development"
4) Anna's history... seems to demonstrate that human nature is determined by the
child's communicative social contact as much by his organic equipment and that the
system of communicative symbols is a highly complex business acquired early in life as
the result of long and intimate training.
5) Theories of socialization are neither right nor wrong in this case, but simply
inapplicable
✔✔Self - ✔✔The individual identiy of a person as percieved by that same person
✔✔I - ✔✔one's sense of agency, action, or power
✔✔Me - ✔✔The self as perceived as an object the 'I' the self as one imagines other
perceived one.
✔✔Agent of Socialization; Family - ✔✔_______________ primary agent of
socialization, more imporant than the rest.
Class differences:
Middle class families: Stress independence and self direction
Concerted cultivation: entering children into soccer leagues, piano lessons, "formal
activities"
Working class families: stress obedience to external authority
The accomplishment of Natural Growth: unstructured playtime "informal growth"
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Janice Radway - ✔✔_________ _________: author, Reading the romance: Women,
Patriarchy and Popular literature (1987) argued that women exhibit a great deal of
indivdual agency when reading romance novels, which helps them cope with their daily
lives in patriarchal society by providing both escapes from the drudgery of everyday life
and alternative scripts to their readers.
✔✔Herbert Gans - ✔✔________ _________: Author of Deciding whats News, All media
is biased, not simply 'the facts are the facts.'
✔✔Four possible effects of media - ✔✔Short term intended: Cereal ads
Short term unintended: increased violence in children who play violent video games
Long term intended: stop smoking ads
Long-term unintended: Decentitized to violence and sexual imagry
✔✔Racism in the Media - ✔✔Time Magazine stating the physical traits of Japanese in
an article called "How to tell your friends from the Japs"
Differences between African American Katrina victims 'looting a grocery store' in the
media
vs
White family 'finding bread in a grocery store'
✔✔Barry Glassner - ✔✔Author, The culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the
Wrong things (1999): As a culture, we are grossly exaggerating the frequency of rarely
occurring events often through amplification of a single instance through media
repetition.
IE: redirecting our attention to systemic political, social, and economic issues towards
sensational but rare things like terrorist attacks and school shootings.
✔✔Dawn Currie - ✔✔_______ ________, Canadian Sociologiest, while girls can read
these mags critically, they cant select the images in them.
✔✔Jean Kilbourne - ✔✔_________ ____________ Director, Killing us softly:
Advertising Image of Women, examines media in which women are maimed, slices,
raped and otherwise deformed in advertising images.
These images help sustain violence against women.
✔✔Naomi Klein - ✔✔Author, NO Logo: taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, 2000, analyzes
the growth of advertising in schools.
, ✔✔Culture Jamming - ✔✔The act of Turning Media against itself (Adbusters - IE Joe
Chemo)
✔✔Craig Calhoun - ✔✔_________ __________, Social scientist, wrote Dictionary of
the Social Sciences. Defined the word Socialization as The process through which
individuals internalize the values beliefs and norms of a society and learn to function as
its member
✔✔Agents of Socialization - ✔✔1) Family
2) School
✔✔Five conclusions learne from Anna, the girl who was isolated from birth - ✔✔1) Her
inability to develop past an "individual level of mentality.... is largely the result of social
isolation"
2) "It seems almost impossible for any child to learn to speak think and act like a normal
person after a long period of isolation
3) When she is compared with other cases of isolated children, the similarities "seem to
indicate that the stages of socialization are to some extent necessarily related to the
stages of organic development"
4) Anna's history... seems to demonstrate that human nature is determined by the
child's communicative social contact as much by his organic equipment and that the
system of communicative symbols is a highly complex business acquired early in life as
the result of long and intimate training.
5) Theories of socialization are neither right nor wrong in this case, but simply
inapplicable
✔✔Self - ✔✔The individual identiy of a person as percieved by that same person
✔✔I - ✔✔one's sense of agency, action, or power
✔✔Me - ✔✔The self as perceived as an object the 'I' the self as one imagines other
perceived one.
✔✔Agent of Socialization; Family - ✔✔_______________ primary agent of
socialization, more imporant than the rest.
Class differences:
Middle class families: Stress independence and self direction
Concerted cultivation: entering children into soccer leagues, piano lessons, "formal
activities"
Working class families: stress obedience to external authority
The accomplishment of Natural Growth: unstructured playtime "informal growth"
