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Chapter 21: Social Movements and Social Change

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Chapter 21: Social Movements and Social Change

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21-1 §21.1 source ↗

Which of the following organizations is not an example of a social movement?
  1. a.
    National Football League
  2. b.
    Tea Party
  3. c.
    Greenpeace
  4. d.
    NAACP

Answer

A. National Football League

21-3 §21.1 source ↗

Which of the following is an example of collective behavior?
  1. a.
    A soldier questioning orders
  2. b.
    A group of people interested in hearing an author speak
  3. c.
    A class going on a field trip
  4. d.
    Going shopping with a friend

Answer

B. A group of people interested in hearing an author speak

21-5 §21.1 source ↗

According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are:
  1. a.
    irrational and impulsive
  2. b.
    often misinterpreted and misdirected
  3. c.
    able to develop their own definition of the situation
  4. d.
    prone to criminal behavior

Answer

C. able to develop their own definition of the situation

21-7 §21.2 source ↗

If we divide social movements according to their positions among all social movements in a society, we are using the __________ theory to understand social movements.
  1. a.
    framing
  2. b.
    new social movement
  3. c.
    resource mobilization
  4. d.
    value-added

Answer

C. resource mobilization

21-9 §21.2 source ↗

Social movements are:
  1. a.
    disruptive and chaotic challenges to the government
  2. b.
    ineffective mass movements
  3. c.
    the collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values
  4. d.
    the singular activities of a collection of groups working to challenge the status quo

Answer

C. the collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values

21-11 §21.2 source ↗

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 ________.
  1. a.
    prognostic framing
  2. b.
    diagnostic framing
  3. c.
    motivational framing
  4. d.
    frame transformation

Answer

A. prognostic framing

21-13 §21.3 source ↗

When sociologists think about technology as an agent of social change, which of the following is not an example?
  1. a.
    Population growth
  2. b.
    Medical advances
  3. c.
    The Internet
  4. d.
    Genetically engineered food

Answer

A. Population growth

21-15 §21.3 source ↗

Core nations that work to propel peripheral nations toward modernization need to be aware of:
  1. a.
    preserving peripheral nation cultural identity
  2. b.
    preparing for pitfalls that come with modernization
  3. c.
    avoiding hegemonistic assumptions about modernization
  4. d.
    all of the above

Answer

D. all of the above

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