Introduction to Sociology

Question 13 Answer: Discovery involves finding something that already exists, but invention involves the creation of something new
Viruses already existed, but couldn’t be seen until the invention called the electron microscope, which combined recently discovered electrons with the centuries-old technology called the microscope.


Questions 14 Answer: the creation of local monopolies
The creation of local monopolies is not a risk of media globalization, as small monopolies are typically not as powerful and are not connected with the rest of the world through globalization.


Question 15 Answer: the digital divide
The digital divide is the uneven access to technology around race, class, and geographic lines.


Question 16 Answer: technological diffusion
The sharing of the knowledge and technology surrounding the swine flu vaccine is an example of the spread of technology across borders.


Question 17 Answer: the way that various forms of media socialize users


Questions 18 Answer: Functionalism
This approach is concerned with how the different parts of a society work together as a system to fulfill society’s needs and to promote stability.


Question 19 Answer: conflict theory
This approach examines populations that have been systematically disadvantaged relative to other more privileged populations.


Question 20 Answer: panoptic surveillance


Question 21 Answer: gatekeeping


Question 22 Answer: symbolic interactionism
This approach would enable researchers to examine the protest as an interactive social phenomenon, and they would further consider what symbolic meanings were in play for the activists.


Question 23 Answer: technophiles; Luddites
Technophiles see a bright future with technology while neo-luddites view technology as cold and alienating.


Question 24 Answer: social construction of reality
Media can construct our reality