Chapter 18: Social Change, Social Movements, and Collective Action

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of these involves variations over time in every aspect of the social world, from changes affecting individuals to transformations impacting the entire globe?

a. social change

b. social movements

c. social variations

d. social transfer

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Workers’ Rights, Consumer Activism, and Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which of these is a characteristic of a social movement?

a. short-term duration

b. spontaneity

c. institutionalization

d. collective effort involving a significant amount of people

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which of these movements sought to reverse social change?

a. feminist movement

b. Arab Spring

c. gay and lesbian movement

d. tea party movement

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The LGBTQ movement is an example of which of these?

a. a cultural movement

b. a social movement

c. an ethnic movement

d. a social organization

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is the belief that women are socially, politically, and economically equal to men?

a. femininity

b. socialism

c. feminism

d. suffrage

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminist Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. To which period is the first wave of the U.S. women's movement traceable?

a. 1900s

b. 1750s

c. 1840s

d. 1620s

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The first wave of the women's movement focused largely on which of these?

a. women's rights in the workplace

b. women's rights in the educational field

c. women’s right to vote

d. women’s freedom from domestic violence

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Betty Friedan's book ______ had a strong effect on the second wave of the women's movement.

a. Nickel and Dimed

b. Women's Rights

c. The Doctrine of Women

d. The Feminine Mystique

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Claire is a “third wave feminist.” Which of these is associated with Claire’s “wave”?

a. greater racial and ethnic inclusivity

b. voting rights

c. social media usage

d. consciousness raising

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Besides the problem of alcohol, with which of these was the World Women's Christian Temperance Union concerned?

a. educational opportunities for women

b. women's rights in the workplace

c. political rights for women

d. women's rights in the household

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Global Women’s Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Which of these characterizes the women’s movement today?

a. unity and decline

b. diversity and globalization

c. unity and globalization

d. decline and religiosity

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Global Women’s Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The first wave of the LGBTQ movement in the U.S. is traceable to the which period?

a. 1950s

b. 1890s

c. 1750s

d. 1620s

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: World War II and the Lavender Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Which era has been described as “somewhat of a nationwide coming out experience” for gays and lesbians in the U.S.?

a. the World War I era

b. the World War II era

c. the Cold War era

d. the Iraq War era

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: World War II and the Lavender Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which of these describes the organized government purges of gay people resulting in thousands of discharges from government service for those suspected of “sexual perversions”?

a. Stonewall

b. Lavender Scare

c. Mattachine Society

d. Harvey Milk tragedy

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: World War II and the Lavender Scare

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Which organization was founded in the 1950s to focus on the rights of gay women?

a. Daughters of Bilitis

b. Daughters of Mattachine

c. Mattachine Society

d. Lavender Scare Society

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The U.S. Based Homophile Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement?

a. the Civil Rights Act of 1964

b. the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968

c. the 1969 uprisings at Greenwich Village's Mafia-owned Stonewall Inn

d. the ACT/UP social action in 1989

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stonewall

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. When was homosexuality removed from the DSM as a mental illness?

a. 1967

b. 1980

c. 1945

d. 1973

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homosexuality in the DSM

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Who was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to major political office in the state of California?

a. Henry Smith

b. John Booth

c. Frank Miller

d. Harvey Milk

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Harvey Milk

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Which of these was instrumental in moving the gay and lesbian movement into a politics of queer spaces and identities?

a. Stonewall

b. ACT UP and Queer Nation activism

c. the DSM

d. the Lavender Scare

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: HIV/AIDS, ACT UP and Queer Nation

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. When was same-sex marriage legalized in the U.S.?

a. 1899

b. 1996

c. 2015

d. Same-sex marriage is still not legal in the U.S.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Ongoing Fight for Marriage Equality

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Which of these is TRUE for support of same-sex marriage in the U.S.?

a. It is not supported by most people in the U.S.

b. Evangelical Protestants are much more likely to support same-sex marriage than are Catholics and mainline Protestants.

c. Women are only slightly more likely than men to support same-sex marriage.

d. Republicans are much more likely to support same sex marriage than are Democrats.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Ongoing Fight for Marriage Equality

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Which of these banned discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and national identity?

a. the Social Movement Act of 1962

b. the Civil Rights Act of 1964

c. the Social Change Act of 1965

d. the Equality Act of 1961

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Which of these was the key event in the history of the Civil Rights Movement?

a. the emergence of voting booths for blacks in 1957

b. the 1955 bus boycott in Alabama

c. restaurants building restrooms for Blacks in 1952

d. Whites and Blacks attending dances together in 1953

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Which of these is TRUE of the Civil Rights Movement?

a. Women were not actively involved in it.

b. It was not covered in the media.

c. Most whites strongly supported it.

d. It was the most notable social movement in the history of the U.S.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. For a social movement to emerge what must first be present?

a. media

b. protestors

c. grievances

d. violence

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Emergence, Mobilization, and Impact of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Which theory focuses on what groups of people need to do to effectively bring about social change?

a. resource mobilization

b. emergent norm

c. individual mobilization

d. cultural resource

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Factors in the Emergence of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Which important resource in mobilizing social movements is associated with the legitimacy of the movement?

a. human resources

b. moral resources

c. cultural resources

d. material resources

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Tomas was asked to participate in a social movement about immigrant and refugee rights because of his ability to speak four different languages and understand the local conditions of immigrants in his city. Which important resource in mobilizing social movements does Tomas possess?

a. human resources

b. moral resources

c. cultural resources

d. material resources

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Which type of person is likely an ideal participant for a social movement based on criteria in your chapter?

a. a college student who has extra time to participate and who feels passionate about the cause

b. a very busy professor who teaches a social movements class

c. a wealthy donor who gives to many causes and is willing to give to the social movement

d. a person with social movement background

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. Erica is part of a social movement to save the environment. She is responsible for creating situations that bring attention to the importance of the environment to the media, public, and political leaders. Which of these is Erica responsible for?

a. tactics

b. goals

c. strategies

d. factors

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Goals, Strategies, and Tactics

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the success of a social movement?

a. Very few successful social movements start off small.

b. Enlisting violence can turn-off potential supporters and members and can work against movement success.

c. Movements that avoid networking with other social movements are usually more successful.

d. Movements that are unique have a hard time getting media attention and becoming successful.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Factors in Success

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Which group was effective in using Facebook to recruit western women to join and men to travel to Syria to participate in the conflict?

a. Yellow Jackets

b. Hamas

c. Islamic State

d. Syrian Liberation Organization

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Internet, Globalization, and Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Which theory is based on the idea that new norms are created considering some precipitating event, and they guide the often-nontraditional actions that characterize collective behavior?

a. emergent norm

b. innovative norm

c. changing norm

d. resource norm

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Collective Action

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. Which of these are organized via the Internet and other social networking sites, oftentimes to rally for a certain cause?

a. instant mobs

b. flash mobs

c. collective crowds

d. innovative mobs

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Crowds

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. Which of these is a temporary unruly collective action that causes damage to persons or property?

a. crowd

b. disaster

c. riot

d. collective action

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Riots

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Which is most likely to participate in a riot, according to information from the chapter text?

a. an elderly white man

b. a young woman who comes to a location specifically to participate in a riot

c. a young man who feels his actions can make a difference

d. Riots are unruly, and it is difficult to pick a typical participant.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Riots

Difficulty Level: Medium

37. Which of these does Hurricane Maria exemplify?

a. a riot

b. a flash mob

c. a tragedy

d. a disaster

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Disasters

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. Which of these is TRUE of disasters?

a. They are solely caused by natural phenomenon.

b. The response to them is typically quick and effective.

c. They have been eliminated with technological upgrades in building codes.

d. The Challenger Shuttle incident is an example of a disaster.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Human Involvement in Disasters

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. Prior to the current era of globalization, one common characteristic of people, things, and information was which of these?

a. location specificity

b. linearity

c. solidarity

d. less density

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization as the Ultimate Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. Zygmunt Bauman notes that globalization involves the increase of which of these?

a. permanence

b. solidification

c. liquidity

d. density

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global “Liquids”

Difficulty Level: Medium

41. Agnes, a small business owner in Wales, found that after the 2008 financial crisis in the U.S., she could NOT get a loan from banks in her country. This is an example of which of these?

a. a global flow

b. a global economics

c. a global change

d. a global inequality

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Global “Flows”

Difficulty Level: Medium

42. Some people in the U.S. think that too many undocumented immigrants live within the country's boundaries. The global growth in immigrants is an example of which of these?

a. a global liquid

b. an emotional wall

c. a global care chain

d. a global flow

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global “Flows”

Difficulty Level: Medium

43. Which of these is TRUE of Edward Snowden’s WikiLeaks releases?

a. His information revealed that NSA had been secretly spying on the Obama administration.

b. His information revealed that the NSA had been spying on allied nations such as Germany.

c. His information release resulted in his detention by the Russian government.

d. His information release showed that government agencies rarely engage in global information sharing.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Globalization and the Internet

Difficulty Level: Medium

44. What is the main concern of the World Social Forum?

a. peace among nations around the world

b. war in developing countries

c. the tendency for socialism to take root in some industrialized nations

d. the lack democracy in global economic and political affairs

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cyberactivism

Difficulty Level: Medium

45. The slogan of the World Social Form is which of these?

a. another world is possible

b. freedom at any cost

c. togetherness is the key

d. fighting for truth

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cyberactivism

Difficulty Level: Medium

46. Which of the following is an example of cyberactivism?

a. the 2017 Washington Women’s March

b. Alcoholics Anonymous

c. the civil rights movement

d. the women’s rights movement

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cyberactivism

Difficulty Level: Medium

47. Which of these roles are occupying increasingly more of our time globally?

a. producing

b. working

c. consuming

d. reading

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The globalization of consumers

Difficulty Level: Medium

48. Pepsi and Levi’s Jeans are examples of well-known ______ names.

a. trademark

b. brand

c. brandmark

d. stigmatized

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Global Brands

Difficulty Level: Easy

49. What is the name of a symbol that serves to identify and differentiate one product or service from others?

a. trademark

b. brand

c. commodity

d. label

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Global Brands

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The Tea Party is an example of a social movement which has sought to bring about social change.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. To bring about change most successfully, social movements typically operate within already organized institutional channels.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Feminist movements in the U.S. have worked inside established institutional channels.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Feminist Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. While the 19th Amendment technically gave women the right to vote in 1848, women were NOT able to vote until it became law in 1920.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The third wave of feminism has been critiqued for its lack of inclusivity of racial and sexual minorities.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The National Organization of Women was a major factor in the second feminist movement.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Women’s Movement in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Since World War II, gays and lesbians in the U.S. have had equal rights with other U.S. citizens.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: LGBTQ Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The homophobia scare was a term given to the government-sponsored attack on sexual minorities and those who engaged in same-sex behaviors.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: World War II and The Lavender Scare

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The 1970 uprisings at Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn began the modern gay rights movement.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stonewall

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Homosexuality was removed as a mental illness from the 1973 edition of the DSM because of the gay and lesbian movement.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Homosexuality in the DSM

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. John Stone was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to major political office in the state of California in 1977.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Harvey Milk

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Since 2015, same-sex couples have the right to marry in four U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ongoing Fight for Marriage Equality

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The Montgomery boycott served as a model for future civil rights action and all other subsequent social movements.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. became a global social movement.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Part of the Civil Rights Movement’s success was its ability to successfully incorporate existing organizations, such as the NAACP, and add new organizations, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The Civil Rights Movement enlisted violence to eliminate racism.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Civil Rights Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Churches were an important free space in the second wave of the women’s movement.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Factors in the Emergence of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Will is skilled in social media. A social movement scholar would identify Will as a moral resource.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Lorenzo is very well respected in his community and people have encouraged him to act as a leader to try to challenge discrimination in their community. A social movement scholar would identify Lorenzo as a cultural resource.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Material incentives are most likely to outweigh the risks and costs of participation in a social movement.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Participation

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Civil disobedience is a nonviolent public act that is against the law aimed at changing government policies.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Goals, Strategies, and Tactics

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. One factor in determining whether a social movement will succeed is novelty, or its uniqueness of the movement and its goals.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Factors in Success

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. A crowd is characterized sociologically as “collective action.”

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Collective Action

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The Internet is a crucial tool for social movements.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Internet, Globalization, and Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Collective behavior is identified as behavior that is random and uncontrolled.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Collective Action

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Kylie is in a crowd. According to Emergent Norm Theory, Kylie will comply blindly to whatever the crowd does.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Crowds

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Most riots have been shown to have long lasting positive effects that outweigh the damage they have done in the short run.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Positive Effects of Riots

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. To be characterized sociologically as a disaster an event must be natural phenomenon that causes great human destruction.

Learning Objective: 18.3: Identify different types of collective action.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Human Involvement in Disasters

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Before globalization, life was more local, with greater social solidarity.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization as the Ultimate Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. Globally, more people today spend more time as consumers rather than as producers.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consumption and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Japanese citizens are much more likely to embrace the idea of consumer society than are U.S. citizens.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Local and Regional Differences

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. Globally, people are increasingly confused about what is expected of them as consumers.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Brands

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Define the term social movement and identify three characteristics of it. Select one social movement from the readings and list the characteristics that demonstrate it is a social movement.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge and Analysis

Answer Location: Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What three factors must exist for a social movement to emerge?

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Factors in the Emergence of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Five types of resources are necessary for successful social movements. List and explain the four that you see as most important. Give an example of each.

Learning Objective: 18.1: Discuss the significance of social movements in the United States, as well in other parts of the world.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge and Analysis

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of Social Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Identify three factors that determine whether a social movement will succeed. Apply those factors in an assessment of the civil rights movement.

Learning Objective: 18.2: Explain how social movements emerge.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Resources and Mobilization of a Social Movement

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Explain the relationship between globalization and cyberactivism. Include an example from the course or the reading in your discussion. Be sure to define cyberactivism.

Learning Objective: 18.4: Describe contemporary examples of global social change.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge and Analysis

Answer Location: Cyberactivism

Difficulty Level: Medium