Exam 16: Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies

Modernization typically reduces the range of personal choice about how to live.

Peter Berger describes modernization in terms of several important changes.Read the responses below and select the one that is NOT a trait that Berger links to modernity.

The genocide that took place in the Darfur region of Sudan is an example of which of the following types of disasters?

How does deprivation theory differ from mass-society theory as an explanation of social movements? Which do you think is more accurate? Why?

What demographic (population) trends are reshaping the United States? What are some likely consequences of these changes?

Moving on has always been an important part of the experience of U.S.society.Remembering the map in the CHAPTER, in which part of the country are there a larger number of households that stay put, where the same people have lived for thirty years or more?

Following class-society theory, the key problem of living in a modern society is

Political-economy theory links social movements to opposition to the capitalist economy.

Modern people, claims mass-society theory, tend to develop tradition-directed personalities and hold to conventional ways of life.

Max Weber's thesis on the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism highlighted the importance of which of the following in the process of social change?

Social movements always form among the people who are the most disadvantaged.

What is a "disaster"? What are three types of disasters? Give an example of each.

Today's other-directed people have little interest in fashions and fads.

A number of sociologists contributed to a mass-society theory of modernity.Which of the following sociologists is NOT one of them?

Sociologists claim that collective behavior is generally easy to explain.

David Riesman described tradition-directed social character as which of the following?

What have sociologists learned about disasters? What are the three types of disasters? Provide an example of each.Explain why the social damage caused by a disaster may end up being more serious than the property damage.

Ralph Linton explained that many familiar elements of our culture

Karl Marx highlighted which of the following in the process of social change?

The atomic tests near to Utrick Island in 1954 were a disaster for the 159 people who lived there.Kai Erikson explains that this disaster