Exam 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society

A necessary condition for a social movement to take place is when people feel worse off than others or feels deprived of what they should have.This is called:

Martin Luther King preached the principles and philosophy of nonviolent resistance developed by:

One of the effects of urbanization was to increase feelings of relative deprivation.

Lawsuits,voter registration drives,legal strikes and boycotts are all examples of adaptive strategies.

Immediately after Martin Luther King,Jr.was assassinated,the response of many African Americans was:

Black-on-black and Latino-on-Latino crime is very rare in the United States today.

A social movement has,all else being equal,a greater chance of success in a rural setting than in an urban setting.

As economic expansion raises expectations of minority group members,the majority are likely to respond in which way?

The government of the United States has been forced to be more supportive of the demands for equality of its people of color due to their international leadership with other countries.

What is the acronym for the national organization seeking to protect the rights of Native Americans?

For a social movement to be successful people must have a sense that they have something to gain by protesting and that the potential gains outweigh the costs.

The use of alcohol or drugs among minority groups is an example of:

What are adaptive strategies and change-oriented strategies? Give examples of each.

Social change is more likely in urban areas than rural for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Which of the following is an adaptive response to subordinate or minority status?

A response to subordinate or minority status where the person takes out their frustration on an easier or more available target rather than the true source of the unequal status is called:

There has been a shift in this century,particularly since World War II,in the response of minority group members to their subordinate status.Which of the following characterizes that shift?

All of the following changes after WWII precipitated movement-facilitating conditions among American minorities EXCEPT:

In recent years in the United States,illegal drug use among minorities using is:

Indians took over Alcatraz Island,a former federal prison on San Francisco Bay in the 1970's because: