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.Management Sciences
Category: Social and Cultural Change
_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?
A. Bureaucratization
B. Decline
C. Coalescence
D. Incipience
E. Arousal
The Functionalist view on social change sees development and modernization both________________?
A. necessary and functional
B. slow and adaptive
C. responsive but counterproductive
D. humanistic and rational
E. abnormal and troublesome
How do fashions differ from fads ?
A. Fashions are norms fads are not
B. Fashions are long-lived fads are short-lived
C. Fashions enjoy widespread acceptance within society fads enjoy acceptance only among a segment of the population
D. Fashions include crazes fads do not Mass hysteria
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
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