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Sociology 1502 - Chapter 21

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1. Which of the following organizations is not an example of a social movement?

a. National Football League
b. Tea Party
c. Greenpeace
d. National Action Committee on the Status of Women
a. National Football League
2. Sociologists using critical perspective might study what?

a. How social movements develop
b. What social purposes a movement serves
c. What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement
d. What individuals hope to gain from taking part in a social movement
c. What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement
3. Which of the following is an example of collective behaviour?

a. A soldier questioning orders
b. A group of people interested in hearing an author speak
c. A class going on a field trip
d. Going shopping with a friend
b. A group of people interested in hearing an author speak
4. The protesters at the Egypt uprising rally were ________________.

a. A casual crowd
b. A conventional crowd
c. A mass
d. An acting crowd
d. An acting crowd
5. According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are _________________.

a. Irrational and impulsive
b. Often misinterpreted and misdirected
c. Able to develop their own definition of the situation
d. Prone to criminal behaviour
c. Able to develop their own definition of the situation
6. A boy throwing rocks during a demonstration might be an example of ___________.

a. Structural conduciveness
b. Structural strain
c. Precipitating factors
d. Mobilization for action
c. Precipitating factors
7. If we divide social movements according to their competitive position among all social movements in a society, we are using the __________ theory to understand social movements.

a. Framing
b. New social movement
c. Resource mobilization
d. Value-added
c. Resource mobilization
8. While PETA is a social movement organization, taken together, the animal rights social movement organizations PETA, ALF, and Greenpeace are a __________.

a. Social movement industry
b. Social movement sector
c. Social movement party
d. Social industry
a. Social movement industry
9. Social movements are __________________.

a. Disruptive and chaotic challenges to the government
b. Ineffective mass movements
c. The collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values
d. The singular activities of a collection of groups working to challenge the status quo
c. The collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values
10. When the League of Women Voters successfully achieved its goal of women being allowed to vote, they had to undergo frame __________, a means of completely changing their goals to ensure continuing relevance.

a. Extension
b. Amplification
c. Bridging
d. Transformation
d. Transformation
11. If a movement claims that the best way to reverse climate change is to reduce carbon emissions by outlawing privately owned cars, "outlawing cars" is the ________.

a. Prognostic framing
b. Diagnostic framing
c. Motivational framing
d. Frame transformation
a. Prognostic framing
12. Children in peripheral nations have little to no daily access to computers and the internet, while children in core nations are constantly exposed to this technology. This is an example of ______________.

a. The digital divide
b. Human ecology
c. Modernization theory
d. Dependency theory
a. The digital divide
13. When sociologists think about technology as an agent of social change, which of the following is not an example?

a. Population growth
b. Medical advances
c. The internet
d. Genetically engineered food
a. Population growth
14. China is undergoing a shift in industry, increasing labour specialization and the amount of differentiation present in the social structure. This exemplifies __________.

a. Human ecology
b. Dependency theory
c. Modernization
d. Critical perspective
c. Modernization
15. Core nations that work to propel peripheral nations toward modernization need to be aware of ______________.

a. Preserving peripheral nation cultural identity
b. Preparing for pitfalls that come with modernization
c. Avoiding self-serving, normative assumptions about modernization
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
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