Sociology Theorists

Question 1

McLuhan

Answer 1

global village:
even when people are not physically close, they can still connect, share experiences, and access the same information through technologies, such as social media

Question 2

Ritzer

Answer 2

McDonaldisation:
the impact of globalisation is that the world is becoming more like a fast-food operation

Question 3

Miliband

Answer 3

the role of the media is to shape how we think about the world we live in and suggested that audiences are rarely informed about important issues such as inequalities in wealth or why poverty persists. The capitalist system is rarely criticised or challenged.

Question 4

James Whale

Answer 4

media moguls are busy dealing with global matters, not what stories run in the newspaper

Question 5

Statistics private education

Answer 5

51% of journalists privately educated

Question 6

Dennis Skinner

Answer 6

protested with miners whilst writing for daily express

Question 7

Tomlinson

Answer 7

popular culture doesn’t exist, pick and mix from many cultures

Question 8

Sklair

Answer 8

media blurs lines between entertainment and promotion, sells across a Western lifestyle

Question 9

Conford and Robins

Answer 9

interactivity was present in traditional media - the ruling class has always transmitted its ideology

Question 10

Boyle and Haynes

Answer 10

new media hasn’t replaced traditional - just offered more options (streaming football on phones etc)

Question 11

Baudrillard

Answer 11

hyper reality

Question 12

Keen

Answer 12

fake news - lack of control and regulation can lead to fake news

Question 13

Giddens

Answer 13

less personal interactions on social media in late modernity

Question 14

Marxist view on ownership

Answer 14

small group of individual owners have the control

Question 15

Sutton Trust

Answer 15

found that more than 50% of journalists are white, m/c and have gone to a private school

Question 16

Hargrave

Answer 16

black people more than twice as likely to be portrayed as criminals in comparison to white people

Question 17

Hall

Answer 17

‘Black Muggers’
a moral panic over black criminality at the time created a diversion away from the wider economic crisis – ‘black youths out of control’ being the headlines rather than ‘Capitalism in Crisis’ – hence the title of the book ‘Policing the Crisis’ (of Capitalism).

Question 18

Malik

Answer 18

african carribbean were more likely to be portrayed in light entertainment

Question 19

Tuchman

Answer 19

women’s achievements are often not reported

Question 20

Wolf

Answer 20

women are represented as sexual objects for men’s gratification

Question 21

McRobbie

Answer 21

there is an illusion of equality in the representations of women

Question 22

Gauntlett

Answer 22

retributive masculinity - positive features of typical masculine traits e.g. top gear

Question 23

Wayne et al

Answer 23

82% of news concentrates on young people and violent crime

Question 24

Owen Jones

Answer 24

demonisation of the w/c