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Category: Social and Cultural Change
Which of the following describes a central change in contemporary life that has been identified by futurists ?
A. The United States is being restructured from an agrarian to an industrial society
B. Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy
C. High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive
D. all of the above
Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?
A. contagion
B. convention
C. group thinks
D. expressiveness
E. reformation
A ___________ is a substantial number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms ?
A. craze
B. group
C. contagion
D. collectivity
E. mob
Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?
A. countermovement
B. social amelioration
C. counter modernization
D. countenance
E. post modernization
When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?
A. immanence
B. anomie
C. hysteria
D. goal displacement
E. cultural lag
__________ movements advocate for progressive change using different methods than those that have previously failed and are often considered to be anti-government ?
A. Reactionary
B. Redundant
C. Reformist
D. Radical
E. Revolutionary
Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?
A. clear
B. explicit
C. encouraged
D. vague
E. repeated
Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?
A. the resource mobilization approach
B. the deprivation approaches
C. the capitalist collapse approach
D. none of the above
Mass hysteria ?
A. involves contained anxiety
B. is usually associated with some mysterious force
C. never involves physical symptoms
D. none of the above
Gossip usually consists of information about a person ?
A. family
B. personal affairs
C. crimes
D. military record
E. work
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