SELF-TEST After completing this self-test‚ check your answers in the Answer Key of this Study Guide. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. Who studies the size‚ composition‚ growth‚ and distribution of human population? a. population experts b. growth specialists c. demographers d. social development professionals 2. The proposition that the population grows geometrically while the food supply increases arithmetically is known as the: a. food surplus equation. b. Malthus theorem. c
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Manuel‚ Communication Power; Mass communication‚ mass self communication and power relationships in the network society Johnstone W.C John‚ Review: Who Controls the News?‚ The American Journal Of Psychology; Halberstam David‚The Powers that be; Gans Herbert‚ Deciding What’s News; Tucheman Gaye‚ Making News; A Study in the Construction of Reality. Klinenberg Eric‚ Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age‚ The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science‚ 2005;597. Louw. E‚ Western
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The most stunning indictment of the media’s portrayal of black America came when someone pointed out the bias in reporting during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Associated Press published two photos. One showed a group of white people‚ wading through the water and pushing some items that they’d taken from a store. The other photo showed a group of black people‚ wading through the water and pushing some items that they’d from a store. The white people were described as “finding food”. The
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of the Human Sciences 21.4 (2008): 49-67. SocINDEX with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. Emerson‚ Robert M. "Ethnography‚ interaction and ordinary trouble." Ethnography 10.4 (2009): 535-548. SocINDEX with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. Gans‚ Herbert J. "Participant Observation in the Era of `Ethnography ’." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 28.5 (1999): 540. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Mar. 2010. Irwin‚ Katherine. "Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography: The Lived Ethics and Inequality
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Gans’ “Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor: Uses of the Underclass in America‚” expresses five ideas of the prejudiced poor population including that the criminal and abnormal behavior from the poor is mostly related to poverty rather than free choice
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in the mind of the beholder. Facts to one person are often lies to another. This is why it is so difficult to discuss and synthesize such concepts as news balance and impartiality; what is important is the preservation of accuracy. (Herbert‚ 2000. p. 67) Herbert Gans (1980: 182) quotes an atricle by Peter Schrag in this regard: ‘Every reporter operates with certain assumptions about what constitutes normative behavior‚ if not good society‚ and the more “objective” he tries to be‚ the more likely
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Poverty are unproven‚ unimpressive and unrealistic dreams of how our society should go about eliminating poverty. We need poor people in our society to maintain a solid‚ functioning economy on local‚ state and federal levels. Firstly‚ as stated by Herbert Gans‚ we need poor people to do the physically dirty or dangerous‚ temporary‚ dead end and underpaid‚ undignified and menial jobs. Society can fill these jobs by paying qualified professionals higher
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ETH 125: Quiz 4 *Ethnicity and Religion* **Please highlight the correct answer. Once completed‚ save and rename the file with your first name and then upload to the Assignment tab which is due next Sunday.** The following materials are based on Schaefer’s Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Religion 1. The largest ancestral group of European Americans is a. French. b. Irish. c. German. d. Norwegian. 2. Which of the following groups has always been considered White by the English
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Approaches to define news range from the structural to the critical perspectives. There are scholars who say it is; made or manufactured (Tuchman‚ Cohen and Young) Those who say it is discovered (Schudson) Those who say it is decided upon (Gans) Those who say it is selected (Epstein) Aim here is to engage with the concept especially as it relates to international journalism No defn; focus now on the fundamental principles underlining news- news values and news criteria as constitutive
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Class structures existed in a simplified form in pre-agricultural societies‚ but became much more complex and established following the establishment of permanent agriculture-based civilizations with a food surplus.[3] Classism started to practice around 18th century[4] Institutional versus personal classism[edit] The term classism can refer to personal prejudice against ’lower ’ or ’upper ’ classes as well as to institutional classism‚ just as the term racism can refer either strictly to personal
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