Exam 13: Social Change: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

Rachel heard that, if you parked your car in an underground parking lot at night, it was important that you should always approach your car from the back, not the side, so that you could see if someone was hiding beneath it. She also was warned to check the back seat to ensure that no one was crouching in the back ready to attack her. She heard this warning from her older sister's best friend who read it in an email from a college acquaintance. According to the text, what is the term given to this kind of anecdote?

The text uses the example of a woman having a stroke following her visit to a chiropractor to demonstrate which collective behaviour?

According to the text, in what year were non-enfranchised Aboriginal peoples given the right to vote?

What kind of movements are antismoking and drug-free movements?

When a collectivity gathers at the same place at the same time and pursue a common goal, what type of crowd do they form?

What example was used in the text to exemplify an acting crowd?

According to the text, what is the term used for an irrational but widespread worry that certain groups present an enormous threat to the social order of society?

According to the text, social movements share several characteristics with other forms of collective behaviour. However, social movements have some unique characteristics that disqualify them as being categorized as collective behaviour. Which of the following statements is NOT a feature that distinguishes social movements from collective behaviour?

A social movement is in part distinguished from other collective behaviour by the degree of radical change it proposes.

According to the text, how is the sense of belonging that develops within a social movement most accurately labelled?

After untimely celebrity deaths (for example, Whitney Houston, Brittany Murphy, and Michael Jackson), rumours tend to circulate about their lives and the circumstances of their death. What term did the text give for this?

Distinguish between fads and fashions, offering examples as part of your answer.

According to the text, which of the following is an example of a crowd that is experiencing "social contagion"?

According to the text, what is the term used to describe a process wherein a social movement declares that a particular condition is unjust and identifies measures needed to resolve the unfairness?

According to the text, what kind of social movement is Alcoholics Anonymous?

According to the text, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a social movement?

According to the text, gossip often involves stories about ambiguous individuals.

A temporary but highly popular social pattern is called a fad. An example of this is when "Gangnam style" went viral in 2012.

The celibacy club chapter at a local junior high school might be connected to a larger abstinence movement. This exemplifies which of the following movements?

Which type of movement seeks to bring about a total change in society, rarely working within the existing system to accomplish its purpose?