Exam 16: The Process of Change: Can We Make a Difference

Regressive movements try to protect an existing system or part of a system.

Sometimes behavior that results in change is unplanned, even spontaneous.

The implications of terrorist suicide bombings are generally:

Worldwide networks of labor resources and production processes that create a product are called:

Explain how you would plan a social movement using Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail discussion lists. Explain how each form of technology uses the micro, meso, and macro levels. How does technology aid the facilitation of social movements?

Which of the following is not true about social movements?

Riots differ from mobs in that riots focus on specific targets while mobs may shift targets.

What are the differences between a strain and stress? Provide examples of each.

Collective behaviors involve only micro-level individual actions.

Jana, a fashion design major, is appalled to hear that the university bookstore sells clothes made in sweatshops. In opposition to this, she and her friends form a sit-in at the bookstore. Jana can be classified as the leader of a social movement.

According to emergent norm theory, individuals try to minimize their losses or costs and maximize their benefits.

Bai-lin is studying a group of anarchists who are working to try to eliminate all government and government control as a whole from the United States, and encourage everyone instead to rule themselves individually. The group Bai-lin is studying is likely a part of a(n):

According to evolutionary theory, societies cannot skip steps in the evolutionary process.

Carlin wants to study the civil rights movement in the United States. His hypothesis is that the movement has actually been a series of slow, small changes that have helped society run more smoothly. Carlin is likely using a:

Imagine that you have been asked to explain the feminist movement from at least three different theoretical perspectives. Which three theories will you choose? For each of the three theories, provide basic information about the way in which the theory explains social change in general, and use the theory to provide an explanation for the growing equality of women in the world.

The social world model is based on the assumption that change, whether evolutionary or revolutionary, is inevitable.

During the popularization stage, the purpose for a social movement is known and concrete.

In 2004, Lance Armstrong began selling his trademark yellow Live Strong bracelets to raise money for cancer research. Within six months of its release, the yellow bracelets (sold for $1 each) made $25.1 million and garnered much national attention for cancer research. Briefly explain how this fad "rippled" into a movement for social change.

Which of the following is not a necessary element for collective behavior to occur, according to value-added theory?

North Korea is a core nation.