Soc 101 - Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Final Quiz Chapter 21 Social Change Quiz

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Question #1
Karl Marx understood modernity in terms of which of the following?
A.   the rise of rationality
B.   increasing productive specialization
C.   the rise of the capitalist economic system
D.   the loss of traditional community
Question #2
Tools as simple as a comb and as complicated as the space shuttle require skills to use them. These skills are referred to as ________.
A.   technology
B.   materialism
C.   diffusion
D.   science
Question #3
Charles Mackay noticed that country folk, who are ordinarily reasonable people, sometimes did "disgraceful and violent things" when they formed a crowd. What explanation did Mackay propose for this kind of behavior?
A.   They had a herd mentality.
B.   They had serious mental problems.
C.   They had been oppressed and needed to rebel.
D.   They had experience in riotous behavior.
Question #4
Actions performed by a group of people who bypass the usual norms governing their behavior and do something unusual are referred to as ________.
A.   bureaucratic ritualism
B.   the Peter Principle
C.   collective behavior
D.   cultural deviance
Question #5
Although all the faculty members of Acadia University have new state-of-the-art computers, several professors refuse to use them and even replaced them with personal typewriters. This is an example of ________.
A.   cultural lag
B.   cultural reformulation
C.   cultural contracts
D.   cultural diffusion
Question #6
Sociologists point out that
A.   all social change is good.
B.   some societies change and others do not.
C.   All of these answers are correct.
D.   social change happens all the time.
Question #7
The development of the assembly line process and use of interchangeable parts is an example of how technology has changed ________.
A.   social organization
B.   society's values
C.   social relationships
D.   a society's ideology
Question #8
Comparing various social changes, we correctly conclude that
A.   fads have the greatest importance.
B.   all changes are planned.
C.   some changes matter more than others.
D.   most changes go completely unnoticed by people.
Question #9
In the United States, our culture makes us think that modernity always involves which of the following?
A.   progress
B.   tradition
C.   inequality
D.   celebrating the past
Question #10
Changes in social organizations, ideologies, conspicuous consumption, and social relationships is attributed to_________.
A.   capitalism
B.   ongoing inventions
C.   world discoveries
D.   new technology

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