Question 1

Official voter turnout for the May 2011 federal election was 61.1 percent,which is comparable to turnout seen in other elections since 2000.For voters aged 18-24 the turnout was 38.8 percent.Why do younger people tend not to participate in the electoral process? If you were hired by Elections Canada to address this situation,what ideas would you propose? Explain how they would increase voter turnout for the 18-24 age category.

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Question 2

What types of social movements are found in rich countries? What types in poor countries? What do they have in common,and how are they different? How could al Qaeda be considered a social movement?

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Question 3

According to the text,to what stage have newer social movements been able to carry the struggle for citizenship rights in Canada?

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A)  universal citizenship 
B)  global citizenship 
C)  civil citizenship 
D)  political citizenship

Question 4

According to the frame alignment typology,what happens to individual interests,beliefs,and values in social movements?

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A)  They either complement the movement or they fail to do so. 
B)  They correspond to the interests of the movement leaders. 
C)  They contribute to increased membership in social movements. 
D)  They do not correspond to the interests of the movement leaders.

Question 5

Who is credited with initiating the Occupy Wall Street movement?

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A)  sociologist C.Wright Mills 
B)  Kalle Lasn,editor of Adbusters 
C)  feminist Andrea Dworkin 
D)  Mike Davis,Marxist writer and political activist

Question 6

What is the term for collective attempts to change all or part of the social order?

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A)  social movements 
B)  social revolutions 
C)  civil disobedience 
D)  civil rights

Question 7

Which type of theorist would contend that democracy is guaranteed when no sole/single group of people is able to control politics?

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A)  nihilist 
B)  elitist 
C)  anarchist 
D)  pluralist

Question 8

How does the text define authority?

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A)  as coercive power 
B)  as tacit power 
C)  as legitimate power 
D)  as cooperative power

Question 9

What is the difference between the state and civil society? Give at least three examples of each.

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Question 10

Which theory holds that social movements can emerge only when disadvantaged people can marshal the means necessary to challenge authority?

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A)  pluralist 
B)  resource mobilization 
C)  power balance 
D)  power elite

Question 11

According to public policy analysts,what needs to be done in order to increase female political participation?

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Question 12

In Australia and Belgium,citizens are legally required to vote in elections and may face fines,mandated community service,or other sanctions if they fail to do so.Should Canada implement a mandatory voting law? Why or why not?

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Question 13

Which statement summarizes a belief of elite theorists?

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A)  Small groups occupy the command posts of society. 
B)  Power is widely distributed among small groups of people. 
C)  Everyone has a chance to become a member of the ruling class. 
D)  Only the educated elite should have the right to govern.

Question 14

A respected economist claims that the U.S.financial bailout of 2008 was endorsed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson,a former CEO of Goldman Sachs,and that he acted only in the interests of big business.Which theoretical perspective would support this assessment?

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A)  Marxist structuralists 
B)  elite theorists 
C)  Marxist instrumentalists 
D)  state-centred theorists

Question 15

Toulin maintains the belief that Canada is a heterogeneous society comprising a number of centres of power and many competing interests.Which position has she adopted?

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A)  that of elite theorists 
B)  that of pluralist theorists 
C)  that of sociological theorists 
D)  that of Marxist theorists

Question 16

Dariya was arrested when she was found spray-painting protest messages on the walls of a new factory that was approved by the local government.Which branch of government will decide how to deal with Dariya's actions?

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A)  legislative 
B)  executive 
C)  judiciary 
D)  administrative

Question 17

In Canada,approximately what percentage of nonagricultural workers is unionized?

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A)  20 
B)  30 
C)  40 
D)  50

Question 18

Do you believe that Canada will be a more democratic society 25 years from now? Discuss your position,incorporating concepts and theories addressed in this chapter.

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Question 19

How have social movements in "the other 85 percent" of the world developed differently from those in industrialized countries?

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A)  They have accelerated the development of civil society infrastructure. 
B)  They had established democracies long before Europe and North America. 
C)  They have been slow to develop social movements because everyone is poor. 
D)  They focused more on elemental human rights and freedom from colonial rule.

Question 20

Salim has a television show on local cable that tells people about injustices in their neighbourhoods.What aspect of society would this media outlet for injustice be part of?

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A)  civil society 
B)  informative branch 
C)  anarchy 
D)  free speech

Exam 19: Politics and Social Movements