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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
_____________ 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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories 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 ?

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
________ 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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

Unverified information that is passed on from person to person is called a______________?

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
Unverified information that is passed on from person to person is called a______________?

A. metaphor
B. contagion
C. convention
D. rumor
E. gossip

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs

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

August 4, 2021July 6, 2019 by admin
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

Categories Social and Cultural Change, Sociology Mcqs
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