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Test Bank for Essentials of Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach, 14e 14th Edition by Jim M. Henslin. Complete chapters are included with answers (Chapter 1 to 15). Test bank is organized in reversed order to ensure you all chapters are included. The Sociological Perspective Culture Socializati...

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Chapter 15: Social Change and the Environment

Multiple-Choice Questions

TB_Q15.1.1
The alteration of culture and societies over time is known as __________.
a. modernization
b. a social movement
c. social change
d. Gemeinschaft

Answer: c. social change
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q15.1.2
In addition to three prior social revolutions, and a fourth we’re currently experiencing, humanity could be
headed toward a fifth revolution prompted by __________.
a. sports
b. information
c. the growing relevance of Africa
d. Gesellschaft

Answer: b. information
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.3
__________ is the term sociologists use for a small, slow-changing, rural society.
a. “Gemeinschaft”
b. “Rapidly changing”
c. “Gesellschaft”
d. “Materialistic”

Answer: a. “Gemeinschaft”
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.4
In a traditional Gemeinschaft society, the divisions of labor between women and men are __________.

,a. flexible
b. nonexistent
c. rigid
d. determined by the shaman

Answer: c. rigid
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.5
Max Weber believed that capitalism arose from __________.
a. changes in life expectancy
b. increased religiosity in a given culture
c. the Protestant Reformation
d. a trend toward smaller family sizes

Answer: c. the Protestant Reformation
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.6
__________ is the transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies.
a. Social movement
b. Gemeinschaft
c. The third social revolution
d. Modernization

Answer: d. Modernization
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q15.1.7
In traditional societies, people own __________. In industrialized societies, people own __________.
a. a lot; a little
b. a lot; a lot
c. a little; a little
d. a little; a lot

Answer: d. a little; a lot
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.

,Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.8
The temporal orientation of traditional societies is that they tend to look toward __________.
a. the past
b. the present
c. the future
d. nowhere in particular

Answer: a. the past
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.9
In a traditional society, education is __________.
a. nonexistent
b. begun in the fourth decade of life
c. begun in the third decade of life
d. not formally structured

Answer: d. not formally structured
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.10
Because of globalization, a social movement can easily __________.
a. turn on itself
b. spread from one country to another
c. achieve all its goals
d. become a local sensation

Answer: b. spread from one country to another
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It

TB_Q15.1.11
The triadic division of the planet since World War II emphasizes __________ in Europe.
a. Italy
b. France

, c. Germany
d. Great Britain

Answer: c. Germany
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.1.12
The G7 has come to understand that the well-being of __________ is an essential component to
worldwide stability.
a. the United States
b. Germany
c. Africa
d. Japan

Answer: c. Africa
Learning Objective: LO 15.1 Summarize how social change transforms society: include the four social
revolutions, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, capitalism, social movements, and global politics.
Topic/Concept: How Social Change Transforms Social Life
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It

TB_Q15.2.13
__________ theories assume that, as it moves from a simpler society to a more complex one, every
society must go through the same stages in the same order.
a. Bilinear
b. Trilinear
c. Multilinear
d. Unilinear

Answer: d. Unilinear
Learning Objective: LO 15.2 Summarize theories of social change: social evolution, natural cycles,
conflict over power and resources, and Ogburn’s theory.
Topic/Concept: Theories and Processes of Social Change
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q15.2.14
__________ theories propose that different routes lead to the same stage of development for a society.
a. Multilinear
b. Natural cycle
c. Diffusion
d. Unilinear

Answer: a. Multilinear
Learning Objective: LO 15.2 Summarize theories of social change: social evolution, natural cycles,
conflict over power and resources, and Ogburn’s theory.

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