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Soc Ch 21 Exam Latest UpdateWhich of the following organizations is not an example of a social movement?
A) National Football League
B) Tea Party
C) Greenpeace
D) NAACP - Answer A) National Football League
Sociologists using conflict perspective might study what?
A) How social movements develop
B) What social purposes a movement serves
C) What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement
D) What individuals hope to gain from taking part in a social movement - Answer C) What
motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement
Which of the following is an example of collective behavior?
A) A soldier questioning orders
B) A group of people interested in hearing an author speak
C) A class going on a field trip
D) Going shopping with a friend - Answer B) A group of people interested in hearing an
author speak
The protesters at the Egypt uprising rally were:
A) a casual crowd
B) a conventional crowd
C) a mass
D) an acting crowd - Answer D) an acting crowd
According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are:
A) irrational and impulsive
B) often misinterpreted and misdirected
C) able to develop their own definition of the situation
, D) prone to criminal behavior - Answer C) able to develop their own definition of the
situation
A boy throwing rocks during a demonstration might be an example of ___________.
A) structural conduciveness
B) structural strain
C) precipitating factors
D) mobilization for action - Answer C) precipitating factors
acting crowds - Answer crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal
assembling perspective - Answer a theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving
as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective
action
casual crowds - Answer people who share close proximity without really interacting
collective behavior - Answer a noninstitutionalized activity in which several people
voluntarily engage
conventional crowds - Answer people who come together for a regularly scheduled
event
crowd - Answer a fairly large number of people who share close proximity
emergent norm theory - Answer a perspective that emphasizes the importance of social
norms in crowd behavior
expressive crowds - Answer crowds who share opportunities to express emotions
flash mob - Answer a large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous
activity that lasts a limited amount of time
mass - Answer a relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be
in close proximity
public - Answer an unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas
value-added theory - Answer a functionalist perspective theory that posits that several
preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur
If we divide social movements according to their positions among all social movements
in a society, we are using the __________ theory to understand social movements.
A) framing
B) new social movement
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