Chapter 14: Sport & Mass Media

Stacking refers to assigning people to sports positions based on...

Drugs that enhance athletic performance are also good for your health.

Which of the following terms can be linked to the process of rationalization?

The Sumerians produced a form of writing called

What is the gap between those with access to new technologies and those without called?

Which society made a type of paper from reeds?

Television does not depict a great deal of violence.

Which of the following sports is an example of indirect competition?

Which sector of society benefits according to the knowledge gap hypothesis?

Established rules in sports is a key component of...

A situation in which more people accept an opinion causing people to become less likely to voice their views.

The sociological view interested in how mass media shapes everyday social interactions.

One of the major topics covered by mass media is the media themselves.

Which of the following is an example of a functionalist perspective of media?

Media executives, editors, or reporters who can choose to pursue or not purse a particular news story.

According to Robert Putnam, ---- has lead to a decline in social capital.

The concentration on a single task in sports

The media set the boundaries of public debate by deciding which issues will receive coverage and which ones will not?

Until the 1400's, the principle mass medium in Europe was the hand written book.

Which of the following is not considered a valid perspective for studying sport as a social issue?

Which activity is linked with the bureaucratization of sports?

In ----- competition in sports, two individuals or teams engage each other physically.

The process of using measurement to compare the achievements of athletes.

Social networks & the reciprocal norms associated networks that encourage people to do things for each other

The gap between those with access to new technologies and those without

Everything that makes up a community

After passing Title IX, the participation in sports for which type of athlete increased dramatically/

Minorities are still underrepresented in which role in sports?

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 encourages advertisers to use a rating system similar to that used by TV companies

The knowledge gap hypothesis concerns the ability of people to access

Respected individuals in the community

The first major breakthrough in mass media came with the development of ---- and ---.

If people are busy increasing their collection of --- they have no time to think about society's inequalities.

Which of the following materials were used by Greeks for writing?

Which development in mass communications was developed by the Sumerians?

The process by which every feature of human behavior becomes subject to calculation, measurement, and control.

Which of the following in NOT a characteristic that distinguishes a sport as a social institution?

What are media executives, editors, or reporters called who open or close the gate on a particular story?

Johannes Gutenberg invented

Of the following social perspectives what focuses on how sport diverts attention form social injustice to a distraction?

The sociological view that the purpose of social institutions is to maintain the present social order

The digital divide describes the gap between

This media argues that media messages are distorted because the media is owned by members of the power elite?