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Higher Education

Quiz for Chapter 18

Multiple Choice Questions

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1. Mass culture can be seen as a product of ________.

a) the cultural industries
b) discriminating consumers
c) marketing departments
d) advertising

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2. What term is used today to refer to how dominant groups in society exercise their intellectual and moral leadership?

a) hegemony
b) dogma
c) propaganda
d) ideology

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3. What social movement introduced residential segregation based on social class?

a) the French Revolution
b) the Post-Industrial Revolution
c) the American Revolution
d) the Industrial Revolution

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True or False Questions

1. By the time children are two, they understand that television is make-believe.

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2. Violence has only recently played a role in entertainment.

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3. Those who use the term 'mass culture' want to make sure that popular culture is identified as commercial culture.

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Fill in the Blank Questions

1. Gramsci used the term ________ to refer to the way in which dominant groups in society use intellectual and moral leadership to try to win ascent over subordinate groups.

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2. The ________ produced a great deal of fear among members of the British government.

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3. ________ relationships are generally two-directional and, therefore, social.

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Short Answer Questions

1. What are the consequences of the apparent link between media coverage and consumer spending?

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2. What media has been accused of contributing to cultural and political decadence?

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3. What did Jonathan Freedman suggest that we look to for explanations of growing rates of violence and crime?

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