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

Your boss is pressuring you to donate to the company charity when you have never supported the charity before. This is a:

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

Ulla wants to study the way that groups of individuals decide to behave following a terrorist attack in their area. She feels that people's confusion following the attack will lead to the development of new definitions of acceptable behavior. Ulla is most likely using:

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 the theory explains social change in general, and use the theory to provide an explanation for the growing equality of women in the world.

According to the text, lynching, group killings, and hate crimes are all examples of:

Expressive movements focus on changing individuals and saving people from corrupt lifestyles.

A commodity chain is a worldwide network of labor resources and production processes that go into creating a product.

The stage of a social movement in which the context for the movement is set is the ___________ stage:

Riots and demonstrations are a form of:

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

One feature of social movements is that they are consciously organized.

During the institutionalization stage, the social movement becomes a formal organization.

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:

A system of planned organizational change in which workers are involved in the decision-making process to change the internal dynamics of a company to make it more efficient is a:

Conflict goals are one example of the stresses organizations may experience.

Social reform movements are most often religious in nature.

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

Identify at least three types of stresses that organizations may experience.

The United States has not approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming,