A. Intercultural harmony
B. Cultural contacts
C. diffusion
D. None of these
Social and Cultural Change
Auguste Comte described _________________?
A. Four stages of social change
B. Two stages
C. Three stages
D. None of these
Central to the concept of social movement is the idea that _____________?
A. social movements appear only in times of controlled slow social change
B. social movements occur inside the institutional framework of everyday life
C. people intervene in the process of social change
D. people do not readily undertake joint activity
The form of capitalism that thrives in some developing countries is characterized by a high degree of____________?
A. repression
B. anomie
C. success
D. relative depression
E. solidarity
The term “Socio Cultural” Change refers to______________?
A. Overlapping of two concepts
B. That there is no distinction between both
C. Changes of both kind
D. None of these
A person is consciously motive primarily by his_______________?
A. Social values
B. Real traits
C. Picture of himself
D. None of these
Which sociological perspective minimizes change?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. each of the above
People who are open to new experience and who tend to reject traditional patterns of authority are said to be experiencing ?
A. hysteria
B. countenance
C. modernity
D. a cultural hangover
E. anomie
Cyclical theorists_______________?
A. try to predict the course of a civilization or society
B. focus on analyzing a single society at a time
C. believe that cultures pass through stages of growth quite different from the ones individuals pass through
D. postulate that each culture possesses a life span of approximately 200 years
Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?
A. legendary tales
B. urban legends
C. sports legends
D. schoolyard tales
E. rural legends
