Exam 21: Collective Action and Social Movements

If protesters' grievances are very deeply felt,and yielding to some of the protesters' demands increases their hopes,government concessions may:

To attract more members,unions have recently tried to diversify by organizing among:

The right to free speech,freedom of religion,and justice before the law is known as:

Today,the United States has the lowest union density of any rich industrialized country.

The globalization of social movements was facilitated by inexpensive international travel and communication.New technologies made it easier for people in various national movements to work with like-minded activists in other countries.

Which theory of collective action answers the question of why discontent is sometimes expressed collectively and in nonroutine ways?

Unions have had great difficulty in penetrating what sector of the American labor force?

Explain how frame alignment differs from resource mobilization and political opportunity theories.

Congress passed a law in 1947 that prevented unions from forcing employees to become members or requiring union membership as a condition of employment.The law also allowed employers to replace striking workers.That law was:

Research shows a clear association between fluctuations in economic well-being and the number of lynchings that took place in the South from the 1880s to the 1930s,thus lending support for deprivation-based theories of collective action.

Because breakdown theory sees collective action as a form of social imbalance that is caused by social institutions not working it may be seen as a variant of:

Which of the following factors is (are)emphasized by solidarity theories of social movements?

The approach to social movements that is focused on acquiring resources and support is known as new social movements.

Before 1970,which theory dominated analyses of collective action and social movements?:

Deprivation is not a compelling explanation for collective action partly because in most cases of collective action,leaders and early joiners are:

Robert Brym relates an anecdote about a high school model parliament in which he was unable to motivate his schoolmates to undertake political protest.His anecdote underscores the difficulties bound up with creating:

Government action in the United States has limited opportunities for union growth since the end of World War II because:

Brym and Lie conclude that lynching was:

Enduring and usually bureaucratically organized collective attempts to change (or resist change to)part or all of the social order are called:

Which of the following trends weakened unions in the 1970s and 1980s by limiting the organizational resources of industrial workers?