Soc 001 - Introduction to Sociology » Summer 2021 » Quiz 5

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Question #1
The transformation of culture over time is called:
A.   cultural evolution.
B.   social iteration.
C.   social revolution.
D.   social change.
Question #2
What do large numbers of people form when they come together?
A.   a riot
B.   a fad
C.   a crowd
D.   a collective behavior group
Question #3
What do sociologists call behaviors that are rational for any given individual but that lead to disaster for an entire group?
A.   postmodern dilemmas
B.   cultural leveling
C.   fads
D.   social dilemmas
Question #4
A public goods dilemma occurs when:
A.   individuals must give something to a collective resource without necessarily taking anything in return.
B.   individuals encourage others to participate in a social movement.
C.   individual actions that may be rational by themselves lead to a collective disaster.
D.   an individual tries to cheat the system by getting more than his or her fair share of the commons.
Question #5
When activists begin to amass the things they need to sustain their movement—including volunteers, money, and office space—they are engaging in:
A.   coalescence.
B.   individual behavior.
C.   bureaucratization.
D.   resource mobilization.
Question #6
According to relative deprivation theory, why do people join social movements?
A.   Social movements are a necessary part of a system of social stratification.
B.   Social movements are good places to meet people and network.
C.   They are filling a psychological need to belong to something.
D.   Joining a social movement is a rational response to inequality or oppression.
Question #7
If a social movement works to resist some kind of social change, or even to roll back elements of a change, it is said to be:
A.   resistant.
B.   regressive.
C.   cosmopolitan.
D.   progressive.
Question #8
The spread of beliefs and practices from one cultural group to another is called:
A.   cultural lag.
B.   culture shock.
C.   cultural leveling.
D.   cultural diffusion.
Question #9
Many have noticed that the U.S. economy seems increasingly focused on producing and managing information, rather than on making things. What term or concept could describe this shift?
A.   postmodernism
B.   emergent social movements
C.   mass behavior
D.   technological determinism
Question #10
What was one of the earliest theories of collective behavior?
A.   collective action
B.   emergent norms
C.   contagion
D.   resource mobilization

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