Lesson 4.2.7.3
4.2.7.3 The media, globalisation and popular culture Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2
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Which term describes global media spreading Western values and erasing local cultures?
- Cultural imperialism
- Hyperreality
- Glocalisation
- Cultural hybridity
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What term describes adapting global media products to suit local market tastes?
- Hyperreality
- Cultural imperialism
- Homogenisation
- Glocalisation
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Which process describes global popular culture becoming increasingly uniform and reducing diversity?
- Glocalisation
- Cultural homogenisation
- Media pluralism
- Cultural hybridity
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Which term describes the mixing of global and local cultures to create new cultural forms?
- Cultural imperialism
- Cultural hybridity
- Cultural hegemony
- Cultural homogenisation
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Heavy reliance on imported US television shows is best explained by which media theory?
- Pluralism
- Cultural imperialism
- Postmodernism
- Liberal feminism
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Which concept describes how electronic media collapse space and time to connect world audiences?
- Hyperreality
- Cultural imperialism
- Simulation
- Global village
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Which Baudrillardian concept describes media representations appearing more real than physical reality?
- Hegemony
- Cultural hybridity
- Hyperreality
- Glocalisation
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What is a defining feature of new media compared to traditional mass media?
- Print distribution
- One-way communication
- Passive consumption
- Interactivity
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Which media theorist famously coined the phrase the global village?
- Marshall McLuhan
- Karl Marx
- Stuart Hall
- Jean Baudrillard
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According to pluralists, globalised media increase cultural choice through which outcome?
- Americanisation
- Cultural homogenisation
- Media diversification
- Cultural imperialism
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Which technological advancement post-1990s enabled rapid global distribution of popular culture?
- Satellite radio
- Print publishing
- Analogue broadcasting
- Digital streaming
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Active media audiences interpreting global products in distinct local ways evidence which concept?
- Passive consumption
- Cultural imperialism
- Hypodermic syringe model
- Audience reception
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A major criticism of cultural imperialism is that it wrongly assumes audiences are what?
- Passive consumers
- Active interpreters
- Culturally resistant
- Highly critical
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Global media spreading shared desire for capitalist goods directly encourages which phenomenon?
- Mass democracy
- Cultural hybridity
- Religious fundamentalism
- Culture of consumerism
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Modern global media flows moving between multiple regions rather than just Western nations are what?
- Multidirectional
- Homogeneous
- Westernised
- Unidirectional
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Which term describes adapting a global media format to suit a local audience?
- Glocalisation
- Media convergence
- Cultural imperialism
- Cultural homogenisation
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Which model states that audiences decode media messages according to their cultural background?
- Hypodermic syringe model
- Cultural effects model
- Two-step flow model
- Reception theory
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Which term describes the creative combining of global and local cultural elements?
- Cultural homogenisation
- Cultural imperialism
- Cultural globalisation
- Cultural hybridity
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Which concept refers to the spread of media production and consumption across international borders?
- Media concentration
- Media saturation
- Media globalisation
- Media convergence
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Which term describes commercially produced culture designed for large mass audiences?
- Mass culture
- High culture
- Subculture
- Folk culture
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