A. modern theme parks such as Disneyland
B. the merging of reality and media representations
C. the virtual world made possible by the Internet
D. people, s affinity with soap characters rather than real people
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following positions is NOT associated with the hyper globalizers ?
A. citizens lose faith in existing systems of governance
B. globalization needs to happen much more quickly
C. individual countries no longer control their own economies
D. regional institutions are becoming as powerful as nation-states - Which of the following positions is NOT associated with the hyper globalizers ?
A. citizens lose faith in existing systems of governance
B. globalization needs to happen much more quickly
C. individual countries no longer control their own economies
D. regional institutions are becoming as powerful as nation-states - When Berger & Luckman said that reality is socially constructed they meant ?
A. scientists are guided in their work by social values and interests, so they define and measure phenomena that will support their theories
B. people negotiate shared definitions of their situation and live according to these often forgetting that these social worlds are not fixed and external
C. sociologists decide what constitutes social reality and measure only that
D. terms like reality have no deeper meaning beyond the level of discourse - Which sociological theory emphasizes the meanings that people attach to various aspects of reality ?
A. Symbolic Interactionism
B. Feminism
C. Conflict
D. Radical
E. Structural Functionalism - Constructed reality is________________?
A. the ability to control the behavior of others
B. the principle that meaning derives from social interaction in daily life
C. the observed consequences that permit the adaptation or adjustment of a system
D. and artificial explanation of culture that exists apart from any social reality or shared social meaning - What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ?
A. a fairground rides
B. a circus
C. a puppet theatre
D. a ballet - Jean Piaget found that although newborns have no self in the sense of a looking glass image they are quiet ?
A. ethnocentric
B. self-centered
C. other-directed
D. deterministic - According to Manual Castells which is the defining organizational structure of our age ?
A. bureaucracy
B. networks
C. hierarchy
D. conglomerates - Which of the following is not a characteristic of ideology according to the critical conception of ideology ?
A. neutral
B. misleading
C. illusory
D. distorting - According to Marshall McLuhan which of the following is being created by the electronic media ?
A. global village
B. global network
C. global flows
D. global cities
