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

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Question #1
The transformation of culture over time is called:
A.   social iteration.
B.   cultural evolution.
C.   social change.
D.   social revolution.
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.   social dilemmas
C.   cultural leveling
D.   fads
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.   an individual tries to cheat the system by getting more than his or her fair share of the commons.
D.   individual actions that may be rational by themselves lead to a collective disaster.
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.   resource mobilization.
B.   individual behavior.
C.   coalescence.
D.   bureaucratization.
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.   Social movements are a necessary part of a system of social stratification.
C.   Joining a social movement is a rational response to inequality or oppression.
D.   They are filling a psychological need to belong to something.
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.   cosmopolitan.
B.   resistant.
C.   progressive.
D.   regressive.
Question #8
The spread of beliefs and practices from one cultural group to another is called:
A.   cultural leveling.
B.   cultural diffusion.
C.   cultural lag.
D.   culture shock.
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.   emergent social movements
B.   postmodernism
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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