Chapter 16: Changing Society through Social Movements

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A collective group of people interested in creating social change and challenging authority and power is known as ______.

a. social equality

b. a social movement

c. social behaviorism

d. a social structure

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Components of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. In 2011, an individual joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, marching through the city with thousands of others and demanding change. What was this person doing?

a. breaking the law

b. participating in a protest

c. engaging in a performance

d. adhering to dominant social mores

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Protests: The Most Visible Part of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Social movements will likely target people in ______ in order to make the changes they seek.

a. minority groups

b. power positions

c. religious organizations

d. wealthier social classes

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Components of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Movements that purposefully break laws or customs in their protest against injustice are engaging in ______.

a. civil disobedience

b. civil discourse

c. social dissonance

d. unconstitutional behavior

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Protests: The Most Visible Part of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. How does civil disobedience help a social movement?

a. It brings in donations from other citizens.

b. It breaks social customs or laws to make a point.

c. It models behaviors designed to bring peace.

d. It attacks social institutions

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Protests: The Most Visible Part of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. People who benefit directly from a movement for social change are ______ constituents.

a. conscious

b. direct

c. beneficiary

d. primary

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Individuals who care about a cause, but do not benefit directly from the changes are ______ constituents.

a. beneficiary

b. conscience

c. participatory

d. indirect

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. A straight woman joins a social justice movement advocating for the civil rights of individuals within the LGBTQ community. In order to avoid issues of power and inequality, ______ voices must be at the center of the movement.

a. empathetic

b. supportive

c. authoritative

d. marginalized

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. A group of older adults are unable to afford the increase in rent at their apartment building. How would beneficiary constituents and conscience constituents interact in a social movement organized to help?

a. The older adults are the beneficiary constituents that receive money from conscience constituents.

b. Beneficiary constituents act to help older adults find the funding to keep their homes while conscience constituents act to take control of the building.

c. Conscience constituents help try to solve the problem the beneficiary constituents are experiencing.

d. The older adults are conscience constituents whose plight draws in beneficiary constituents to create a social movement.

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Two things can limit participation in a social movement: ability and ______.

a. able-bodied capacity

b. socioeconomic status

c. power-holders

d. religious beliefs

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socioeconomic Status and Ability

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Contemporary local and global social movements have relied heavily on ______ to communicate their message to a wide variety of people.

a. economic support

b. television and radio

c. social media

d. direct mail campaigns

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mobilizing and Organizing

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. A woman living in a rural neighborhood where fracking is occurring wants to bring attention to this problem. She begins calling neighbors and trying to get them to help. Which stage of organizing a social movement does this describe?

a. mobilization

b. coordination

c. coalescence

d. interaction

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Mobilizing and Organizing

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. A group of teaching assistants are angry about the pay they receive. As a result, they discuss how they can find other teaching assistants who feel the same and form a social movement. This process is known as ______ a social movement.

a. organizing

b. coordinating

c. leading

d. resourcing

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Mobilizing and Organizing

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. People who participate in community-based organizing are mainly interested in ______.

a. using the community to access political, social, and economic power

b. applying their community-based organization efforts to global communities

c. addressing an issue that impacts their own communities

d. focusing on global inequality

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Community-Based Organizing

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Social movements are often thought of as ______, but there are many other types of social movements, including organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan.

a. violent

b. alternative

c. progressive

d. empathetic

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. A movement that seeks little societal change and does not require individuals to change their personal beliefs is a(n) ______ movement.

a. redemptive

b. alternative

c. reformative

d. revolutionary

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Brad is a member of a social movement that advocates for no-kill animal shelters. This is an example of a(n) ______ social movement.

a. redemptive

b. alternative

c. reformative

d. revolutionary

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. In the late 19th century, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union worked to convince individuals to abstain from alcohol consumption. Which type of social movement was this?

a. reformative

b. alternative

c. revolutionary

d. redemptive

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

19. A group of environmentalists stages a protest at a dump site, admonishing people for using plastic bottles and trying to convince them not to. Which type of movement are they engaging in?

a. alternative

b. redemptive

c. reformative

d. revolutionary

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

20. A young woman participates in the Women’s March in Washington D.C. She is participating in a(n) ______ movement.

a. reformative

b. redemptive

c. revolutionary

d. alternative

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

21. Which social movement seeks radical change in society?

a. reformative

b. redemptive

c. alternative

d. revolutionary

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Black Lives Matter is an example of a(n) ______ social movement.

a. redemptive

b. alternative

c. reformative

d. revolutionary

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. What do sociological theories help us understand about social movements?

a. how social institutions should be structured

b. the form, actions, and the level of success social movements have

c. the impact of past social movements on the modern day

d. how to determine which social movement is most appropriate

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Movement Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. According to ______ theorists, social movements emerge when there is an unequal distribution of goods and services.

a. conflict

b. symbolic interactionist

c. functionalist

d. social identity

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Which theory notes that a social movement’s success depends on the movement’s connections, funding, and participants?

a. transnational mobilization theory

b. resource mobilization theory

c. functional theory

d. collective organization theory

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Conflict Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Which theory is interested in looking at how people in social movements collectively create meaning and shared culture?

a. functionalist theory

b. conflict theory

c. symbolic interactionist

d. critical theory

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Symbolic Interactionist Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. An approach to understanding social movements is the ______ approach, which focuses on how movements highlight certain facts and themes while making others invisible to promote their cause.

a. functionalist

b. symbolic

c. linguistic

d. framing

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Movement Framing

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. ______ social movements mobilize around a shared identity.

a. Critical

b. Functionalist

c. Identity-based

d. Spatial justice

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Identity-Based Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Social movements are more likely to develop in which political climate?

a. a socialist-oriented society

b. a nationalist oriented society

c. a repressive society where there is a greater desire for social change

d. a society where people have the freedom to organize and mobilize

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Six Steps of Social Movement Success

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. What is the most valuable resource in any social movement?

a. social media access

b. transportation access

c. money

d. constituents

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mobilize Resources

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. What makes organizing for a social movement more difficult?

a. an abundance of resources

b. cross-cultural issues

c. support from political figures

d. intersectionality

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Differences

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. A key component for a successful social movement, such as the civil rights movement, is ______.

a. a powerful leader

b. strategic research and planning

c. physical proximity

d. the complete agreement about the goals

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Create a Strategy

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. The first step of any social movement is to identify an issue that needs to be addressed. Alongside this step, a movement must ______.

a. make an argument for why change should occur

b. use symbols and rhetoric to recruit others to join the movement

c. gather conscious constituents and financial supporters

d. exclude people who are unwilling to change their behaviors to support the cause

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Identify an Issue

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. A person who is involved in a ______ is working to end gender inequality and gender oppression.

a. gendered institution

b. matriarchal organization

c. feminist organization

d. counter-cultural organization

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Form a Group

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. A feminist who focuses on intersectionality and inclusiveness belongs to which feminist wave?

a. first

b. third

c. second

d. fourth

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Form a Group

Difficulty Level: Medium

36. In China, western social media is prohibited and public protests are banned. This is an example of ______.

a. repression

b. inequality

c. reaction

d. co-optation

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Why Social Movements Fail

Difficulty Level: Medium

37. The text describes two ways that may cause social movements to fail: repression and ______, which occurs when the leadership of the movement begins to identify with the targets of social change and starts to work more for them than for the original movement goals.

a. adoption

b. confiscation

c. co-optation

d. appropriation

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why Social Movements Fail

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. When thousands of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong to show their disapproval of an extradition bill, China mobilized its troops and prepared to step in and stop the protests by a show of force. This represents how governments may use power to control or destroy a movement, called ______.

a. subjugation

b. repression

c. co-optation

d. appropriation

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why Social Movements Fail

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. The marriage equality movement began as an offshoot of ______.

a. the Defense of Marriage Act

b. Roe v. Wade

c. the Stonewall riots

d. the New York City Pride March

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

40. What was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage following a court challenge?

a. Alaska

b. Maine

c. Colorado

d. Massachusetts

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

41. What state passed a marriage equality law in 2009, only to have it voted down in the 2009 election, then passed in the 2012 election?

a. California

b. Maine

c. Massachusetts

d. Illinois

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

42. How did the movement to achieve marriage equality utilize media sources?

a. by ensuring that protests were always in the news

b. by arguing their plight on new stations

c. by buying advertising time during popular shows

d. by gaining acting roles on television shows portraying LGBT characters

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

43. How did the court systems become involved in the marriage equality movement?

a. Courts prosecuted the cases of activists who were too vocal.

b. Courts ruled about the issue of activist parades.

c. Courts heard lawsuits by activists arguing the right to same-sex marriage.

d. Courts prosecuted gay individuals for public lewdness.

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

44. In 2014, the Supreme Court determined that the ______ Amendment required all states to issue marriage licenses to all couples, whether they were male and female or same sex.

a. First

b. Fourth

c. Fourteenth

d. Nineteenth

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Successful Tactics of the Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

45. How did backlash occur after the courts began to rule that same-sex marriages were legal?

a. Some officials who would normally sign marriage licenses refused to.

b. The couples would gain a ceremony but no legal protection.

c. The laws were easily reversed in all states.

d. The activists involved in gaining legal same-sex marriage were arrested.

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: With Success Comes Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

46. What did LGBT groups experience after gaining more political and legal equality?

a. They saw unemployment increase.

b. They saw social acceptance decrease.

c. They saw an increase in violent hate crimes.

d. They saw an increase in housing discrimination.

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: With Success Comes Backlash

Difficulty Level: Medium

47. In most states, employers have the legal right to fire employees for being ______.

a. pregnant

b. gay

c. old

d. female

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: With Success Comes Backlash

Difficulty Level: Easy

48. How would Francis Fox Piven’s concept of interdependent power impact policies on mortgage interest rates?

a. Homebuyers rely on mortgage lenders for money, which gives them the power to determine rates.

b. Homebuyers depend on good credit to gain a loan approval at a good interest rate.

c. Homebuyers can unify and exercise joint power to influence interest rates.

d. Homebuyers with more money have more pull to get lower interest rates.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: How can we Create Social Change?

Difficulty Level: Medium

49. A man gets sick and visits his doctor, who prescribes medication. The medicine is expensive and while waiting in line, he talks to others who are complaining about the high prices of medications. Based on interdependent power, how should these people proceed?

a. Find others and unite to bring attention to the public to influence the pharmaceutical company.

b. Complain to their doctors that the prices are too high and ask for generic varieties.

c. Refuse to purchase these medications and find something over the counter.

d. Contact their health insurance companies and request a change in drug coverage.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: How can we Create Social Change?

Difficulty Level: Hard

50. A sociologist wants to research the causes of low test scores in a given school system. How would this person do this using participatory action research?

a. Ask for volunteer families in the school system to be subjects in the study.

b. Engage in a joint study with the people who are being studied.

c. Create test situations to see which is most influential.

d. Construct an experiment that requires student participation.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Participatory Action Research

Difficulty Level: Medium

51. A sociological researcher wants to study substance use in an inner-city neighborhood. Since the researcher is an outsider, what should the researcher do to conduct participatory action research?

a. Promise that all information shared will be confidential.

b. Include counselors to help with the substance issues.

c. Work with neighbors to get their views on the subject.

d. Offer participants money for their cooperation.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Participatory Action Research

Difficulty Level: Medium

52. The idea that people are experts in their own lives and can therefore take part in the research process is a tenet of ______ research.

a. independent power

b. collective solidarity

c. community based

d. participatory action

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Participatory Action Research

Difficulty Level: Easy

53. What is collective solidarity in a social movement?

a. Collective solidarity is when members of a movement gain strength from the support of leaders.

b. Collective solidarity occurs when a movement is successful.

c. Collective solidarity occurs when social movements become stalled.

d. As members of a social movement work together, they bond and form collective solidarity.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Empowerment, Responsibility, and Making Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

54. Deb participates in marches and protests that are focused on animal rights whenever she can. The protests make her feel like she is part of a large family with the other protesters. This demonstrates ______.

a. collective solidarity

b. beneficiary constituency

c. responsible social action

d. participatory action research

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Empowerment, Responsibility, and Making Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

55. When Marcella decided to participate in the Women’s March because she was concerned about women’s rights, her husband joined her because he had the same concerns, even though they might not directly impact him. Marcell’s husband was a(n) ______.

a. objector

b. ally

c. beneficiary

d. enabler

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Empowerment, Responsibility, and Making Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. To be effective, a social movement must challenge cultural beliefs and practices.

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Components of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Civil disobedience is a form of protest that breaks social customs or laws intentionally.

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Protests: The Most Visible Part of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. When women from technology companies protest to bring attention to the need for equal pay for equal work, these women are most likely beneficiary constituents

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Conscience constituents act in a social movement for the benefit of others.

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

full Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Alternative social movements advocate for people to change what they believe about an issue.

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Reformative social movements address past wrongdoings by individuals

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Resource mobilization theory looks at what is necessary to begin and sustain a social movement, including money and people.

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Conflict Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Political connections are resources to a social movement.

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Social movements that do not successfully address the six steps of social movement success would still be able to reach their goals.

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Six Steps of Social Movement Success

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The National Organization for Women was established during the second wave of feminism, when women were expected to quit their jobs and go back to being full time housewives after WWII ended.

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Public approval for same-sex marriage was decreasing until the Supreme Court legalized it.

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Success can Bring Backlash: The Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. When gay and lesbian people gain equality through policies, social acceptance increases.

Learning Objective: 16.6: What tactics do social movements use to achieve their goals, and what kind of backlash do they face?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Success can Bring Backlash: The Marriage Equality Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. A social movement must have large amounts of money behind it to be successful.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How can we Create Social Change?

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Mass action that results in policy change demonstrates the utility of interdependent power.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How can we Create Social Change?

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Taking part in a social movement rarely results in feeling empowered.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Empowerment, Responsibility, and Making Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What are the components of a social movement?

Learning Objective: 16.1: What is a social movement?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Components of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Describe the two types of social movement members.

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Participating in Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. List and describe the four different types of social movements.

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. List and describe the six steps that tend to create social movement success.

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Six Steps of Social Movement Success

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. How would participatory action research help when potential participants for a research study are not trusting?

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Participatory Action Research

Difficulty Level: Hard

Essay

1. A neighborhood’s drinking water has been tainted. The residents of this neighborhood are poor and have had little success getting anyone in an official capacity to help them. Explain the process of mobilizing and apply it to this social problem.

Learning Objective: 16.2: Why do people participate in social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Mobilizing and Organizing

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Describe one type of social movement and provide a real-life example.

Learning Objective: 16.3: What are the different types of social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Compare and contrast conflict theory and symbolic interactionist theory in terms of how they believe social movements begin.

Symbolic interactionists focus on how people interactively construct meaning through shared symbols and language. Symbolic interactionists theorize that collective behavior develops when established institutions no longer provide meaning that aligns with the views of a majority of its constituents.

Learning Objective: 16.4: How would you use the conflict and symbolic interaction theories to explain social movements?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Movement Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Briefly describe the three waves of feminism, including when they took place and their primary goals.

The second wave of the feminist movement started in the 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. After working in factories during World War II, women were expected to go back to being full-time wives and mothers once the war ended. During this time, women had few rights and were expected to become wives, mothers, and full-time homemakers. It advocated for an end to gender discrimination in the workplace and reproductive rights for women.

By the 1990s, a third wave of feminism was underway. Instead of assuming all women experienced oppression in the same ways as White, middle-class women, the third wave focused on inclusiveness and intersectionality. Third-wave feminists drew from a diverse group of women to advocate around various issues, including sexual violence, gay rights, and reproductive justice.

Learning Objective: 16.5: What are the steps a social movement must take to become successful?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. A poor neighborhood has only two choices of mortgage lending companies, and both charge high interest rates. Explain how the concept of interdependent power could be used in this situation.

Learning Objective: 16.7: How can we create social change?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: How can we Create Social Change?

Difficulty Level: Hard