Deck 24: Social Movements

Question 1

Which term is used to describe the connection between protests?

A) Links
B) Network
C) Systems
D) Grids

Answer 1

B

Question 2

SMOs stands for:

A) Socially motivated organizations
B) Sociological movement operations
C) Social movement organizations
D) Socially managed organizations

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Alberto Melucci argued that most of the time movements are:

A) Protesting to bring their movements into the public eye
B) Doing nothing
C) Engaging in violent acts
D) focusing on less dramatic and less visible activities

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which theorist explores the historical context of social movements?

A) Charles Tilly
B) Alberto Melucci
C) Neil Smelse
D) Mancur Olso

Question 5

The collective behavior approach understands movements as forming and mobilizing in response to:

A) Changing morals
B) Structural strains
C) Violent acts
D) Economic incentives

Question 6

Jasper's notion of moral shock suggests that protests mobilize due to:

A) Inequalities
B) Hardship
C) Perceived poverty
D) Affronts to normative and ethical convictions

Question 7

What term does Neil Smelser (2011) use to describe events that make underlying strains concrete?

A) Prompts
B) Trigger events
C) Illuminators
D) Revealing events

Question 8

Which theory highlights that movements are influenced by their access to resources?

A) Resource mobilization theory
B) Economic mobilization theory
C) Resource access theory
D) Economic access theory

Question 9

Which argument states that activists are more likely to protest and campaign when they believe they are more likely to succeed?

A) Political prospect structure
B) Potential structure
C) Political opportunity structure
D) Activist outlook structure

Question 10

Which term describes the periodic phases within a society's history where movements mobilize in quick succession and levels of protest rise?

A) Phase cycles
B) Cycles of contention
C) Mobilization cycles
D) Historical unrest