Exam 18: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures

The second stage of a social movement occurs when

While ________ was prohibited from racial discrimination, ________ was segregated during World War II.

When there is collective action to change and overcome societal constraints, macro dimensions of agency operate.

For a social movement to develop, there must be a/an ________ that causes ________.

The social movement in the institutionalization stage can face the following danger(s):

Centralization of power and development of a formal structure are characteristic of a social movement in third stage.

Two people who galvanized the civil rights movement in 1955 were

Society, which many consider to be sacred and therefore unchangeable, is a political creation and it can, therefore, not be reconstructed.

The civil rights movement is the result of a single event, such as Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat to a white on a bus.

According to Bill Gilbert and Nancy Williamson (1973), the sharpest example of discrimination operated against

According to Kammeyer (et al), people can break through the social constraints that overwhelm them through the vehicle of

A reform movement is typically characterized by an aggrieved group.

In short, the third stage is a ________ stage.

Social movements are the vehicles, according to Kammeyer (et al), that people can use to break through the social constraints that otherwise overwhelm them.

________ seek radical changes and go beyond reform by seeking to replace the existing social institutions with new ones that conform to a radically different vision of society.

When Peter Berger claims that "the structures of society become the structures of our consciousness," he is presenting a ________ point of view.

What are the three implications of the paradox of sociology?

Goal displacement occurs when the goal of maintaining the formal structure of the movement's organization supersedes the original goals of the social movement.

A social movement focuses on organization during the bureaucratization or formalization stages where a once-unfocused number of people become an organization.

Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 addressed gender inequities in sports.