Deck 7: Social Movements

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a social movement?

A) Sustained effort by an organized group.
B) Random acts of a mindless crowd.
C) Collective challenge of power.
D) Uses extrainstitutional means to achieve goals.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The _______ is an example of a consensus movement.

A) Ku Klux Klan
B) Nation of Islam
C) Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
D) Neo-Nazis

Answer 2

C

Question 3

According to Anspach, political activism among the disabled and former mental patients exemplifies a type of politics which we term _______ politics.

A) identity
B) consensus
C) conflict
D) polarized

Answer 3

A

Question 4

_______ is one of the four strategies for identity management where the individual is firmly committed to cultural conceptions of normalcy and endorses commonly held assumptions about the "ideal" person.

A) normalization
B) disassociation
C) retreatism
D) political activism

Question 5

_______ is one of the four strategies for identity management where the individual remains attached to the values of the wider society and is aware that he or she is disqualified according to them.

A) normalization
B) disassociation
C) retreatism
D) political activism

Question 6

Officers surrounded seven young women who had chained themselves to a tree in Everyday Park. They proceeded to announce clearly over a loudspeaker that if they did not vacate the premises their chains would be cut and they would be arrested. The women agreed to be arrested peacefully if the police would allow them to stay there for two hours. This is an example of the _______ policing style.

A) escalated force
B) negotiated management
C) strategic incapacitation
D) proactive

Question 7

After a prayer vigil in front of the State Capitol, several hundred protesters marched toward the Civil Rights Memorial in Everyday Park. On their way, Chief Clavern met the protesters with several dozen police officers in riot gear, some with viciously barking dogs. Without warning, they released the dogs, shot the protesters with rubber bullets, and used night sticks to beat some protesters to the ground. This is an example of the _______ policing style.

A) escalated force
B) negotiated management
C) strategic incapacitation
D) proactive

Question 8

Two squads of police prepared for the National Political Convention. One sat in a vacant apartment above a protest zone with cameras and screens to provide surveillance and the other waited in swat vans and militarized Hummer vehicles. When the protesters began to gather, the surveillance squad gave the other squad the coordinates, numbers, and the general tactical display of the protesters. The vehicles rolled in, and the officers began barricading protesters in, calling out on megaphones to disperse, and deployed riot shields. This is an example of the _______ policing style.

A) escalated force
B) negotiated management
C) strategic incapacitation
D) proactive

Question 9

According to Jenness, COYOTE is a social movement organization dedicated to reframe prostitution as _______ .

A) immoral
B) service
C) work
D) slavery

Question 10

According to Jenness, COYOTE is a social movement organization that protested _______ .

A) police discrimination and harassment
B) wasting taxpayer money
C) for a $100 an hour minimum wage
D) answers a and b are correct

Question 11

What theoretical and/or categorical similarities can you identify between political activism among former mental patients and prostitutes? Could you apply the strategies for identity management described in the

Question 12

Do you see any similarities between the escalated force policing style of the 1960s and the strategic incapacitation policing style utilized increasingly in our time? How has technology impacted the policing of protest, and does it mask overt repression by state agents like the police as a "softer" or "gentler" type of repression compared to the violent response by some police departments a half century ago?