Exam 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society

Although court rulings in favor of anti-discrimination were important during the 1950s and 1960s,their effectiveness was limited for the following reason:

Who was the Chicano leader who worked to unionize agricultural workers?

Change-oriented movements may seek all of the following EXCEPT:

The importance of mass communications in furthering social movements for oppressed minorities are to add all of the following EXCEPT:

High suicide rates among ethnic minority groups can probably be attributed to which adaptive strategy to unequal status?

When people realize that a social or political system is vulnerable to change through protest they are more likely to become involved in social movements.This theory is called:

Social movements among Mexican Americans and American Indians during the 1960s and 1970s were based on the following key issues EXCEPT:

Substance abuse may be a form of avoidance of subordinate minority status.

Which of the following is one of the conditions necessary for a social movement to develop?

Which of the following is a legal strategy of movements seeking change in minority status?

Acceptance of subordinate minority status may be feigned or real.

Acceptance as an adaptive strategy response to unequal status involves:

What are the necessary conditions for social movements and why is each necessary?

Resource mobilization theory argues that social movements develop:

When homosexuals seek to "pass" as heterosexual,this is an example of the adaptive strategy of seeking assimilation.

Why are urbanization and industrialization so important in helping to bring about social movements for change among disadvantaged minorities?

The first condition that must be present for a social movement to form is dissatisfaction.

The practice of "passing" or presenting yourself to the world as a white person if you are a minority group member who is close in appearance to white is which adaptive response to unequal status?