Category: Social and Cultural Change

A. Contagion
B. Conflict
C. Resource Development
D. Frame Alignment
E. Linear Evolutionary

A. Social movements
B. Developments
C. Conventions
D. Hysterias
E. Protests

A. Automobile
B. Radio
C. both a and b
D. None of these

A. one
B. two
C. three
D. None of these

A. Albert Einstein
B. Charles Darwin
C. Harriet Martineau
D. Benjamin Franklin

A. involve the gradual evolution of existing state and class structures into new social arrangements
B. are most likely to occur when political
C. appear to follow no “natural history”
D. often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime

A. Lenski argues that evolution depends largely on changes in a society’s level of technology and made of economic production
B. Social Darwinists like Spencer see evolution as inevitably leading to the downfall of society
C. Contemporary approaches take a unilinear view of evolution and assume all change equals progress
D. Parsons suggested that societies tend become simpler over time

A. Priceless
B. Costly
C. Ineffective
D. None of these

A. McDonaldization
B. post-modernization
C. the service industry
D. the culture of commerce
E. post-industrialization

A. Invention
B. discovery
C. Social Change
D. None of these