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Unit 2 Lesson 6 Flashcards

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1
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It refers to the prejudgments, or opinion that people have before knowing the full circumstances about a person or an event.

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Prejudices

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It is a powerful tool in disseminating stereotypes especially about women.

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Mass Media

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The media act as an agent of stability, charged with the task of helping preserve social and political order. This function is commonly associated with what term?

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Development Journalism

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Mass media’s influence on the audience is well elaborated in what?

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Chomsky and Herman model of propaganda

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She observed that no press in the world is exempt from bias, including Philippine press.

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Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo

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They argued that mass media do not simply provide objective information changes.

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Herman and Chomsky

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What is the term coined by Guy Debord?

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Society as a spectacle

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He is a French artist and social critic, spectacle or media images dominate politics in modern society.

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Guy Debord

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He described the emergence of a new professional class of publicists and press agents standing between the US politicians and the media.

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Walter Lippmann

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New term for the new professional class of publicists and press agents.

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Public relations consultants

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Refers to the pervasive effects of mass media on how people see and interpret social events.

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Mediatization

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The new age of internet-based mass media ushers in the so called __________.

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Information Society/Knowledge Society

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This is the process whereby global commodities and media images are transformed to meet local cultures.

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Glocalization

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Globacalization is popularized by whom?

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Roland Robertson

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It allows for the proliferation of divergent opinions and political positions in cyberspace.

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Communicative Capitalism

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Inequalities created by the access and use of CITs is called what?

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Digital Divide

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This became one of the political and academic hot topics of the 1990’s.

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Digital Divide

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One scholar that links digital divide with _____ defines it as, “the extent that individuals, families and communities are able to fully participate in society and control their own destinies.

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Social Inclusion

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This app is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.

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AccuWeather

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It is a social network collection of news from various sources in magazine format.

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Flipboard

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When did Benjie Tan established the first connection to the internet?

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March 29,1994

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It is like the electricity of the 20th century.

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Internet

23
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Young people belong to what generation?

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Generation Y or the Selfie generation

24
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It is also known as the ruling elite, which refers to any given society’s economic and political elite.

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Plutocracy

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It means recognition, acceptance and support for an existing form of rule or government as right and proper.

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Legitimacy

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It is the kind of moral authority that keeps society together by virtue of custom and habit.

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Traditional Legitimacy

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In his book “Charisma and Institution Building” Weber studies the transition of power from one regime to another through seizure of power or revolution. What type of Legitimacy is mentioned?

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Charismatic Legitimacy

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Is often regarded as endowed with exceptional powers and superhuman abilities.

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Charismatic Leader.

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It is the quality of political leaders whose individual characteristics set them apart from ordinary people.

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Charisma

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This is a type of legitimacy that is based on a government’s capacity to use public interest as the rationale for establishing and enforcing law and order.

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Rational-Legal Legitimacy

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It is the basis of power and leadership of a government.

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Rational-Legal Legitimacy

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It is a nominal term for social relations.

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Power

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It is a by-product of power or how social relations are organized in a given social setting.

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Authority

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Is the means of rule over a defined or “sovereign” territory.

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State

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It levies taxes and operates a military and police force. It also distributes and redistributes resources and wealth.

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State

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It is based on the relationship between property ownership and dispossession.

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Social Class

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Another term for the English ruling class.

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Squirearchy

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Russian philosopher who succinctly articulates the relationship between State and Class.

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Vladimir Lenin

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It is the instrument of class rule.

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State

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It is made up of plutocrats of wealthy people, mainly the possession of wealth.

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Oligarchy

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It is a product of Spanish colonialism.

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Principalia

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It is a system of rule introduced by the Spanish colonizers who ruled the Philippines from 1571 to 1898.

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Caciquism

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The revolution was inspired by the reform movement initiated by whom?

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Ilustrados

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Is authorized to make laws, alter and repeal them through power vested in the Philippine Congress.

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Legislative Branch

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The Legislative branch is divided into what?

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Senate and House of Representatives

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It is composed of the President and Vice President and forms a large portion of the country’s bureaucracy.

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Executive Branch

47
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Holds the power to settle controversies involving rights that are legally demandable and enforceable.

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Judicial Branch

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Expressly grants the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review as the power to declare a treaty.

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Constitution

49
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Pervades all aspects of social and cultural life.

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Politics

50
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These are images that can be adopted about specific types of individuals, groups or certain way of doing things.

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Stereotypes

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