
Society: The Basics (14th Edition)
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Author: John J. Macionis
Publisher: PEARSON
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According to lecture and readings, a key reason that news interviewers act so consistently to be seen as "asking questions" is:
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journalists as a group tend to be naturally clueless
to maintain a formally neutral or "neutralistic"
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to maintain a substantively hostile or adversarial posture
journalists are both curious and clueless by nature
journalists as a group tend to be naturally curious
a key difficulty with juror conversion is:
jurors tend to have a "hero complex."
jurors in the U.S. tend to subscribe to the ideal of "rugged individualism."
jurors don t want their decisions to appear arbitrary or coerced.
jurors don't pay much attention to the facts or the law.
jurors as a group tend to rank high on the Myers-Briggs scale of attitudinal rigidity.
According to the Goodwin's analysis of the Rodney King beating trial (discussed in the "Professional Vision" article and in lecture), what was the main reason that officers were not convicted?
• none of the choices capture Goodwin's main explanation for the failure to convict.
• good fakes, bad breaks, and all the rest for heaven's sakes.
• the defense attorneys were "playing the long game" while the prosecution just wanted to "take the money and run."
• the judge was bought and paid for.
• the trial was held in Simi Valley, a predominantly white and culturally conservative area that was also home to many police officers.
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