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 TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1.Sociologists interpret sport and the media as emerging institutions. 2.Sport may be thought of as concept that is purely spectacle and devoid of play. 3.About 70% of the U.S. public is involved in sports, either as participants, as spectators, or in both roles. 4.Soccer in Brazil reinforces internal social divisions, and thus does not help to forge a sense of national identity. 5.Functionalists point out that a possible dysfunction of sports and the media is the fact that they promote commercialism. 6.Most studies show that wealthy men and women are more oriented toward sports participation and that the lower classes are more inclined to be spectators. 7.As sports participants, the lower classes favor individual sports, and the higher classes prefer team games. 8.The connection between sport and religion dates to the beginning of the 20th century. 9.On television shows like Miami Vice, Latinos were frequently cast as drug lords rich and powerful enough to control entire cities and even small countries. 10.Researchers now believe that the hypodermic model was not very useful in analyzing the influence of the media, due to its recognized cumulative effect.