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Category: Social and Cultural Change
Ogburn distinguished three forms of the social effects of inventions One is Dispersion or multiple effects of a single mechanical invention for example ?
A. Automobile
B. Radio
C. both a and b
D. None of these
Nineteenth-century theories of social change reflect the pioneering work in biological evolution done by ____________?
A. Albert Einstein
B. Charles Darwin
C. Harriet Martineau
D. Benjamin Franklin
Social revolutions_______________?
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
Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding evolutionary perspectives on social change ?
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
Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?
A. McDonaldization
B. post-modernization
C. the service industry
D. the culture of commerce
E. post-industrialization
A new combination or a new use of existing knowledge is termed as______________?
A. Invention
B. discovery
C. Social Change
D. None of these
Which of the following theorists argued that conflict is a normal and desirable aspect of social change ?
A. Karl Marx
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Emile Durkheim
D. each of above
What theory argues that only certain people will be attracted by the opportunity to participate in a given episode of collective behavior ?
A. Contagion
B. Convergence
C. Emergence
D. Structural
E. Reformist
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