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Social and Cultural Change

Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?

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Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?

A. countermovement
B. social amelioration
C. counter modernization
D. countenance
E. post modernization

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Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?

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Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?

A. McDonaldization
B. post-modernization
C. the service industry
D. the culture of commerce
E. post-industrialization

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Which of the following was not identified as a major theoretical perspective on social change ?

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Which of the following was not identified as a major theoretical perspective on social change ?

A. Functional theory
B. interactionist theory
C. Conflict theory
D. Cyclical theory
E. Evolutionary theory

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_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?

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_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?

A. Bureaucratization
B. Decline
C. Coalescence
D. Incipience
E. Arousal

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What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?

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What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?

A. Globalization
B. Political Process
C. Postmodernism
D. Linear Evolutionary
E. Counter-modernization

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Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?

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________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?

A. Social movements
B. Developments
C. Conventions
D. Hysterias
E. Protests

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Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?

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Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?

A. legendary tales
B. urban legends
C. sports legends
D. schoolyard tales
E. rural legends

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Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?

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Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?

A. clear
B. explicit
C. encouraged
D. vague
E. repeated

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Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?

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Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?

A. contagion
B. convention
C. group thinks
D. expressiveness
E. reformation

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