Exam 10: From the Plow to the Computer Change, Collective Behavior, and Social Movements

Fashion is a form of collective behavior only the strongest among us ignore. What force makes you wear your pants practically around your knees? If this fashion is a social pattern that reflects the interests, values, and motives of a segment of society at a certain point in time, can you identify that segment of society? Is that segment of society your reference group? Why or why not? An interesting research project would be to trace the development of an item of clothing--men's trousers, for instance--for about one thousand years, and see what interests, values, and motives we can deduce from each change in fashion.

Social movements never:

A crisis of legitimacy indicates that:

Marxists are most interested in:

When old rules and laws are ignored and rebellious crowds set up new rules of behavior, social scientists call this situation:

Which is false of the process of diffusion?

A deliberate attempt to persuade the individual to accept a particular belief, or to make a specific choice, uncritically, is:

The idea that technology changes social organization and ideology is called:

Ideologies:

.Collective behavior is:

The Industrial Revolution began as a result of a violent upheaval in the American colonies.

Collective behavior is relatively unpatterned and unstructured.

The speedup of technological progress led to a chain of revolutionary changes that have profoundly transformed our societies.

Public opinion has meaning especially in a mass society.

Which of the following brings about cultural change?

The processes of cultural change include:

The factory system:

The abolitionist movement sought the abolition of:

Organized crowds are more receptive to mob behavior.

Collective behavior is often precipitated by: