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| Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC) |
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| Survey carried out every 4 years; includes answers to questions about health-related behaviours and attitudes about Canadian students |
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| Conventional modern medicine |
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| structural functionalism, conflict theory, interpretive theory, and feminism/anti-racism |
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| 4 theoretical paradigms considered to be most significant approaches to understanding health and medicine sociologically |
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| Talcott Parsons' sick role |
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| Exists to prevent sickness from disrupting the "ongoingness" of social life. Using one's sick leave time away from school/work to improve health |
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| Friedrich Engels' "The Condition of the Working Class in England" |
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| demonstrates the negative health consequences of early capitalism |
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| Hilary Graham's "Women, Health, and the Family" |
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| documents how ineuality affects the various types of home health-care work done by women in order to protect the good health of their families |
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| people with Asperger's-- call others NTs or "neurotypicals"...NORMIES |
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| The book, "Our Bodies, Our Selves" |
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| offers a radical critique of medical practice and provides women's views of their own health, sickness, and bodies |
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| number of new cases (of a disease, condition, etc) in a year |
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| number of cases within a given population |
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| Kasper and Furguson's "Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic" |
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| if breast cancer was a male disease it would have more attention... yadda yadda yadda |
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| King's "Pink Ribbons Inc." |
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| argues that corporations involved in breast cancer awareness/fundraising have thrived because of slogans or some other stupid shit and have totally ignored other preventative methods of not getting breast cancer |
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| health of the person, genetic makeup, psychological makeup, personal experiences, social structural location, cultural milieu (environment--WHY NOT JUST FUCKING SAY ENVIRONMENT YOU PRETENTIOUS FUCKS), spiritual milieu, ecological system, politcal/economical system, tech. development, history |
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| Walkerton, Ontario water case |
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| Contamination of the water supply with E. Coli -- 2500 illnesses + 7 deaths |
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| Public health measures preventing the spread of disease (improved nutrition, better hygiene thru sanitation and water purification) |
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| number 1 contribution towards today's high human life-expectancy |
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| 1920s most common causes of death |
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| heart and kidney disease, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia |
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| PYLL (potential years of life lost) |
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| the younger you die because of disease, the higher your PYLL |
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| AIDS is mostly representeed in Canada by the __________ |
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| Sydney, Nova Scotia Tar Ponds |
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| dangerously contaminated soil because of decades of steel and coke (fuel) production. $400-million cleanup took place |
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| Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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| social cohesion (social capital) |
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| the extent that people are involved in public life and volunteer to work together for the good of the whole. tends to be low for those of lower economic class |
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| sense of coherence (Aaron Antonovsky) |
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| one's orientation to the world that leads a person to a long-lasting dynamic feeling of confidence that things will work out |
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| the tendency for more and more of life to be defined as relevant to medicine |
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| our present medical care system |
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| first implemented in 1972 after a Royal Commission on Health Care |
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| 5 principles of Canadian Health Care |
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1) universality - same care for all Canadian citizens of all backgrounds
2) portability
3) comprehensive coverage
4) administration
5) accessibility |
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| private (for-profit) healthcare in Canada |
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- growing
- bad (higher death rates, more expensive, etc) |
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| 4 Components of Medicalization (Irving Zola) |
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1) expansion of what in life and in a person is relavent to medicine
2) maintenance of absolute control over certain tech. procedure by the allopathic medical profession
3) maintenance of almost absolute access to certain areas by the medical profession
4) spread of medicines relevants to an increasingly large portion of living |
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| growth of medicalization because bureaucratization |
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| claims medicalization is more related to class and class conflict + physicians as entrepeneurs |
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| argue for critically examining how the pharm. industry plays a sig. role in defining diseases as conditions for which they have developed an effective drug |
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| "Religion is the opium of the people" |
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| head of the religion and immigrant youth research team at University of Ottawa |
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| examined religion (mostly functionally rather than substantially), and viewed it through social cohesion lens |
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| term brought forth by Robert Bellah; the role of religion in social cohesion |
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| argue that the separating out of religion as something distinct from everyday life is a CHRISTIAN approach |
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| criticizes dominance of functional conceptualizations of religion where religion > magic even though both are related to the sacred or transcendent |
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| emphasizes the importance of "lived religion"--ways in which people practice religion day-to-day |
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| Barker's "The Making of a Moonie" |
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| investigated some korean "cult" and found out people were not actually being deprived of nutrients/sleep nor were they brainwashed |
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| wasted 15 years of her life investigating a UFO-based cult called the Raelians. Way to go, Susan |
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| the process by which religion increasingly loses its influence |
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| work on secularization; argued that religions began reasserting their intention to have a say over contemporary life in the 80s |
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| believing without belonging |
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| affiliating oneself with a religion while not practicing it |
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| Quiet Revolution (Quebec) |
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| in the 60s, attitudes about religion shifted; views of the church as anti-modern, oppressive, Quebecers no longer wanted to identify with it |
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| Bouchard-Taylor Commission |
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| examines the nature and extent of the problem that seemed to be emerging around accomodation of religions |
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| concerted-adjustment approach of Bouchard-Taylor Commission |
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| approach of people simply working out solutions to religious concerns amongst themselves (eg. talking to your boss about leaving work on Thursday because it is your holy day) |
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| legal model of Bouchard-Taylor Commission |
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| religion is part of identity and thus, should be protected by the law |
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| ceremonial dagger of the Sikhs |
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| Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
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| Sikh kid wore a kirpan to school and got sent to supreme court |
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| researched Dianic Wiccan groups which have become woman-based as opposed to pretty much all other religions |
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| "mother world" in language of indigenous people of south america |
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| the process by which the whole world would "imitate the American way of life" |
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| political philosophy that flourished in the 1980s onwards and that promotes privatization, deregulation, and trade liberalization, as well as supporting idea of reducing social expenses and lowering the tax on the wealthy. |
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| When was Canada's family allowance program eliminated? |
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| information and communication technologies |
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| Wal-Mart-ization or Coca-Colonization |
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| sarcastic synonyms to globalization |
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| talks about "deterritorialization", in which traditional boundaries are eroding and becoming permeable to flows of information and capital |
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"sometimes war is the answer"
Political ideology promoting the return to traditional values and emphasizing the need to oppose any nations or states that could out-compete one's own |
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| 4 members of the Security Council |
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| China, Russia, France, UK |
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years of two major US financial crises
(stock market crash; US financial crisis) |
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| "there is no such thing as society" |
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| --Margaret Thatcher (80s British P.M.) |
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| (T/F) Max Weber viewed the state as the "centre of gravity." Moreover, many believe the state should again assume this position and impose limits/constraints on everything in society. |
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| proposed that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) should control money flows, thereby eliminating all those who hide their assets + not helping third world countries anymore. (this guy was a douche) |
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| B.R.I.C. Emerging Countries |
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| Brasil, Russia, India, and China |
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| Union of Nations of South America |
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| Common Market of South America |
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| Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, let by Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia |
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| __________ believes that the restructuring of the Canadian economy under the influence of NAFTA is taking Canada back to where it started (as a provider of natural resources) |
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| wORLD sOCIAL fORUM, currently links 500,000 NGOs and social movements arround the world |
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| alternative views, policies, or proposals in favour of altering globalization into a system that promotes human rights and environmental concerns |
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| Free Trade Areas of the Americas |
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| buying directly from producers |
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| capitalism is penetrating the fabric of life through modern science and technology |
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| Describes how mortality conditions in European history helped provoke lasting social-structural transformations in Western society |
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| average number of years left to live for a newborn in a given period |
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| the tendency of a population to keep growing |
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| the distribution of the population with respect to age and usually sex |
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| the process by which a country move from high birth/death rates to low birth/death rates. the reverse is called MORTALITY transition |
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_______ said that sustained fertility declines in society would take place when:
1) fertility decisions by couples must be within the calculus of conscious choice
2) reduced fertility must be viewed by couples as economically advantageous
3) effective methods of fertility control must be known and available to couples |
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| (T/F) Malthus explains that humans are reproducing above their ability of sustinence |
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true
([positive checks] vice + misery can curb population growth) |
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| view contraception and family planning as a key element in population control |
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| coined the term "the underdevelopment of development" to refer to the overwhelming influence and control the world's major economic powers hold over developing countries |
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| Abdel Omran's epidemiological transition theory |
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states that industrialized societies have gone through three epidemiological stages:
1)prehistoric times - life was ruled by Malthusian positive checks
2)people then were able to live longer because of advent of argiculture and improved systems of food production and distribution, + general advances in standard of living
3) stage of man-made and degenerative diseases (eg. cancer and heart disease) |
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| What are the features of a fourth stage of epidemiological transition? |
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1) life expectancy at 70+
2) continuation of cancer + heart disease as leading causes of death
3) increased survival of cancer/ heart disease victims
4) unprecedented survival improvements among seniors
5) most deaths should occur in those of old age |
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| [end of baby boom] - 1981 |
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| total fertility rate; measures the number of children a woman would bear throughout her reproductive lifetime if she experienced the prevailing age-specific birth rates in a given period |
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| census metropolitan areas |
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| Four sociological perspectives on communication and media: _________________________ |
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| symbolic interactionism. structural functionalism, conflict theory, and feminism |
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| Faules and Alexander argued |
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| mass communication is different than other forms of communiction |
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| Structural Functionalism is inspired by the ideas of _________ |
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| surveillence of the environment, correlation of the parts of society, transmission of the social heritage, and entertainment |
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| a company containing many firms engaged in a variety of (usually) unrelated business activities |
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| critical perspectives on the media are often divided into two categories: |
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1) political economy (focuses on ownership and control of the media)
2) cultural studies (addresses ideological aspects of the media |
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| Horizontal Integration (Chain Ownership) |
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| exists when one company owns a number of media organizations in different locations that are doing the same type of business |
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| exists when one firm owns media enterprises that link processes such as production, distribution, and exhibition or retail |
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| exists when one company owns organizations that are associated with different types of media |
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| may combine horizontal integration, vertical integration, and even cross-ownership |
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| In Canada it encompasses various institutions: including the government, administration, parliamentary assemblies, armed forces and police, intelligence agencies, court systems, prisons, reform institutions, public media etc |
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| Conflict theory is rooted in the work of _________ |
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| all broadcasting should be Canadian |
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| The Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) was established in ______ |
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| The BBG was replaced by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in ______ |
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| technological determinism |
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| the notion that technologies themselves cause changes in society |
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| Motion Picture Association of America |
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| when a company shifts a portion of its production to another entity |
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| when a company has one of its own foreign affiliates handle the production |
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| CRL vs CAB for broadcasting |
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| Canadian Radio League (public broadcasting) vs. Canadian Association of Broadcasters (private profit) |
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| After the Canadian Radio League kicked CAB's ass, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission was born. (1932) |
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| Canadian Broadcasting Commission (1936) |
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| (media) dominant ideology |
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| expressed ideas or notions in mainstream media express the viewpoints of capitalist class and other powerful groups |
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| what were the techniques used to "play down" the woman with a gun scene in movies? |
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| domestication (portraying female cops as single mothers or at least with maternal instinct), infantilization (making them dependdent or vulnerable), sexualization |
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| dominant-hegemonic reading |
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| taking the preferred meaning out of text |
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| resisting a message by interpreting it through an alternative ideological framework |
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| contains a mixture of dominant-hegemonic reading and oppositional reading |
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| End Legislation Poverty; committed to moblizing the poor and fighting various state policies that perpetuate poverty; ran through alternative media |
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| refers to issue of inequalities of access to technologies |
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| Internet began in the _____ (year) when US dept. of Defense established the ARPA |
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| Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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| Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" |
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| detailed the effects of pesticides on the human body |
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| the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings |
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| perspective often applied in other areas of sociology and has become established within environmental sociology as well; argues that social reality is more a matter of perception than of objective determination |
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| John Hannigan argues that the "successful construction" of environmental problems requires six conditions be met: |
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1) scientific authority for and validation of claim by parties
2) the existence of "populizers" who can bridge environmentalism and science
3) media attention in which the problem is framed as novel and important
4) the dramatization of the problem in symbolic and visual terms
5) economic incentives for taking positive action
6) the emergence of an institutional sponsor who can ensure both legitimacy and continuity |
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| a body of philosophical thought appealing to many in the contemporary environmental movement who are seeking to understand the interplay between humans and nature |
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| Term coined by Arne Naess referring to a philosophical approach to environmentalism that calls for fundamental social change, in contrast to the more reformist orientation of mainstream environmentalism, referred to by Naess as shallow ecology. Term used to justify any means, legal or illegal, for addressing environmental problems |
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| the fast growing branch of environmentalism that has largely emerged from opposition to local pollution problems or other environemtal risks by neighbourhood residents who typically have no formerly been involved in environmental protest |
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| Environmental Justice (EJ) |
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| environmental movement that ties to toxic waste movement, pissed off about societal inequities that result from industrial facility siting and industrial development |
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