Question 1

Which region of the world has the highest number of Internet users?

Accepted Answer

A) North America 
B) Europe 
C) Asia 
D) Middle East

Question 2

Transnationals are lured by menial labor jobs that provide income superior to what they were able to earn in their native countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The role of women in the family has changed dramatically within the United States during the last 50 years.Women have furthered their education and developed careers.This change in the family has necessitated adaptive changes in school systems,corporations,churches,and other facets of society to provide childcare services.This situation reflects which view of social change?

Accepted Answer

A) the emergent-norm perspective 
B) the equilibrium model 
C) stagnancy theory 
D) resource mobilization theory

Question 4

A new technology used to increase food production and to make agriculture more economical is called

Accepted Answer

A) genetically modified food. 
B) cloned food. 
C) technoproduce. 
D) biotech dietary supplements.

Question 5

Organized collective activities that address values and social identities as well as improvements in the quality of life are called

Accepted Answer

A) social movements. 
B) new social movements. 
C) false consciousness. 
D) resource mobilization.

Question 6

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act,which passed in 1986,requires the authorization of a U.S.attorney general and then the approval of a federal judge before surveillance of

Accepted Answer

A) e-mail. 
B) faxes. 
C) telephone calls. 
D) telegrams.

Question 7

Which term does Talcott Parsons use to characterize the feature of social change that involves social institutions becoming more specialized in their purposes?

Accepted Answer

A) differentiation 
B) adaptive upgrading 
C) inclusion 
D) value generalization

Question 8

The Luddites were factory owners that made huge profits in England during the Industrial Revolution.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Karl Marx suggested human society will move toward the final stage of a classless society through a socialist revolution.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Neo-Luddites are opposed to the technological changes that occurred

Accepted Answer

A) during the Industrial Revolution. 
B) in postindustrial society. 
C) during the postmodern revolution. 
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 11

Which term refers to the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities?

Accepted Answer

A) relative deprivation 
B) relative mobilization 
C) resource deprivation 
D) resource mobilization

Question 12

The expectation that African and Latin countries will change by moving in the same direction as Western societies is consistent with

Accepted Answer

A) disengagement theory. 
B) evolutionary theory. 
C) world systems theory. 
D) resource mobilization theory.

Question 13

Identify the differences and similarities between fads and fashions and panics and crazes.

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

The value-added model suggests that new forms of behavior may emerge during an episode of collective behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

New social movements

Accepted Answer

A) emphasize resource mobilization on a local level. 
B) generally do not view government as their ally. 
C) tend to emphasize economic issues. 
D) have their roots in social class,usually working-class,activism.

Question 16

A group of senators from states that are large suppliers to the space program protest the decision by the federal government to end manned space flights.This group would be an illustration of

Accepted Answer

A) Gemeinschaft. 
B) technocrats. 
C) vested interests. 
D) bear liberals.

Question 17

The affluent have a greater chance of using the Internet than those who are not affluent.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the new Industrial Revolution were known as

Accepted Answer

A) Shakers. 
B) Luddites. 
C) Amish. 
D) Rappites.

Question 19

Because of its collective nature,leadership is not an essential factor in the mobilization of social movements.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The Marxist view of social change is appealing to some because it

Accepted Answer

A) permits people to take a passive role in responding to inevitable cycles or changes in material culture. 
B) permits people to seize control of the historical process and gain their freedom from injustice. 
C) always leads to a reduction in social inequality. 
D) both permits people to seize control of the historical process and gain their freedom from injustice and always leads to a reduction in social inequality.

Exam 18: Social Movements and Social Change in the Global Community

Which region of the world has the highest number of Internet users?

Transnationals are lured by menial labor jobs that provide income superior to what they were able to earn in their native countries.

A new technology used to increase food production and to make agriculture more economical is called

Organized collective activities that address values and social identities as well as improvements in the quality of life are called

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act,which passed in 1986,requires the authorization of a U.S.attorney general and then the approval of a federal judge before surveillance of

Which term does Talcott Parsons use to characterize the feature of social change that involves social institutions becoming more specialized in their purposes?

The Luddites were factory owners that made huge profits in England during the Industrial Revolution.

Karl Marx suggested human society will move toward the final stage of a classless society through a socialist revolution.

Neo-Luddites are opposed to the technological changes that occurred

Which term refers to the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities?

The expectation that African and Latin countries will change by moving in the same direction as Western societies is consistent with

Identify the differences and similarities between fads and fashions and panics and crazes.

The value-added model suggests that new forms of behavior may emerge during an episode of collective behavior.

New social movements

A group of senators from states that are large suppliers to the space program protest the decision by the federal government to end manned space flights.This group would be an illustration of

The affluent have a greater chance of using the Internet than those who are not affluent.

Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the new Industrial Revolution were known as

Because of its collective nature,leadership is not an essential factor in the mobilization of social movements.

The Marxist view of social change is appealing to some because it