| Question | Answer |
| media globalization | instant communication over vast distances |
| media consolidation | smaller number of companies, huge conglomerates, concern over journalistic integrity |
| multicultural voices | uses mass media as a tool to pass along cultural traditions |
| cultural imperialism | cultural control of one country by another |
| global village | an environment where people can make their voices heard to one another |
| global village | an environment where people can make their voices heard to one another |
| fan | someone who finds significant personal meaning through allegiance to a larger social group |
| interpretive community | groups that guide interpretation and convey meanings of mass media |
| types of media texts | dominant, ironic, oppositional |
| goals of consumption | surveillance, decision making, aesthetics, identity |
| types of mass media | print, blogs, radio, movies, tv, games, internet |
| mass media | press, radio, tv, computers |
| media | a way of communicating with each other |
| types of adoption | foster care, private, inter-country, transracial |
| same-sex marriage | urban, well educated, less likely to have children, less likely to own a home, egalitarian |
| cycle of violence | tension building stage, explosion stage, honeymoon stage |
| distress among children of divorce | parental conflict, decline in living standards, absence of a parent |
| factors for marital satisfaction | economic forces, divorce laws, family cycle, housework, sex |
| social forces on love and marriage | marriage resources, third parties, demographic factors |
| functions of marriage | sexual reulation, economic coperaation, reproduction, socialization, emotional support |
| cohabitation | unmarried people living together |
| multigenerational households | adults of more than one generation sharing a home |
| multigenerational households | adults of more than one generation sharing a home |
| companionate marriage | marriage based on emotional ties and love |
| family of procreation | family you choose to belong to |
| family of origin | family you are born into |
| kinship system | cultural forms that locate individuals in the culture by reference to their families |
| family | the basic unit in society consisting of 2 parents rearing their children |
| types of feminists | liberal, radical, multicultural |
| feminization of professions | salaries drop as female participation increases |
| feminization of poverty | gap between medium wages for women and men |
| gender roles | traits, attitudes and behaviors associated with biological males and females |
| social construction of gender | we construct our ender identities using cultural materials surrounding us |
| what determines a woman's status? | size and strength, income, child care |
| secondary sex characteristics | puberty |
| primary sex characteristics | characteristics present at birth, sex organs |
| sex differentiation | the process by which males and females diverge biologically |
| evolutionary imperative | reproductive strategies to ensure that reproduction happens |
| gender identity | the understanding of what it means to be male or female |
| gender | varies from culture to culture, definitions of gender change over time |
| sex | chromosomal, chemical, anatomical organization |
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