New communication technologies have transformed social life over roughly the last 30 years. Which of these is NOT one of the four main technological trends behind this change?
Correct answer B. Robotics
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What is the correct order of the three largest film producers in the world?
Correct answer A. India, Nigeria, USA
Which theoretical approach to the media does Noam Chomsky’s work illustrate?
Correct answer D. Political economy
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According to Jean Baudrillard, what is hyperreality?
Correct answer B. The merging of reality and media representations
According to Marshall McLuhan, what are the electronic media creating?
Correct answer C. Global village
In which year was the World Wide Web invented at a Swiss physics laboratory?
Correct answer C. 1990
The Frankfurt School built on Marx’s work, but which factor did its members argue he had underemphasised?
Correct answer D. Culture
Which approach to audience studies stresses how different audiences use the media to meet their own needs?
Correct answer C. Gratifications model
What is science based on?
Correct answer A. Verifiable evidence
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Which sequence lists the steps of the scientific method?
Correct answer C. Problem, observation, hypothesis, data, experiment, conclusion
When was the relevant volume of Auguste Comte’s ‘Positive Philosophy’ published?
Correct answer C. 1838
Who wrote ‘Principles of Sociology’, completed in 1876?
Correct answer A. Herbert Spencer
In which year was Durkheim’s ‘Suicide’ published?
Correct answer A. 1897
What does the word ‘perspective’ mean in sociology?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
On whose work is the evolutionary perspective based?
Correct answer A. Comte and Spencer
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What does the interactionist perspective study?
Correct answer A. People and their interactions
Who are modern interactionists?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
In which perspective is society seen as a stable system?
Correct answer B. Functionalist perspective
What does the functionalist perspective say about society?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What does society refer to?
Correct answer D. Both A and B