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 change.
D.   social revolution.
Question #2
What do large numbers of people form when they come together?
A.   a crowd
B.   a riot
C.   a collective behavior group
D.   a fad
Question #3
What do sociologists call behaviors that are rational for any given individual but that lead to disaster for an entire group?
A.   cultural leveling
B.   postmodern dilemmas
C.   social dilemmas
D.   fads
Question #4
A public goods dilemma occurs when:
A.   individual actions that may be rational by themselves lead to a collective disaster.
B.   individuals must give something to a collective resource without necessarily taking anything in return.
C.   an individual tries to cheat the system by getting more than his or her fair share of the commons.
D.   individuals encourage others to participate in a social movement.
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.   bureaucratization.
B.   resource mobilization.
C.   coalescence.
D.   individual behavior.
Question #6
According to relative deprivation theory, why do people join social movements?
A.   Social movements are good places to meet people and network.
B.   Joining a social movement is a rational response to inequality or oppression.
C.   They are filling a psychological need to belong to something.
D.   Social movements are a necessary part of a system of social stratification.
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.   regressive.
B.   progressive.
C.   cosmopolitan.
D.   resistant.
Question #8
The spread of beliefs and practices from one cultural group to another is called:
A.   cultural leveling.
B.   cultural lag.
C.   culture shock.
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.   technological determinism
C.   mass behavior
D.   emergent social movements
Question #10
What was one of the earliest theories of collective behavior?
A.   resource mobilization
B.   emergent norms
C.   contagion
D.   collective action

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