Deck 6: The Community in the Postmodern Era

Question 1

__________ capitalism evolved during the eighteen and nineteenth centuries and is linked to steam-driven machinery.

A) Late-multinational
B) Mid-monopoly
C) Early-market
D) Cowboy

Answer 1

C

Question 2

__________ capitalism evolved in the early twentieth century and is linked to the internal combustion engine.

A) Postmodern
B) Mid-monopoly
C) Late-multinational
D) Early-market

Answer 2

B

Question 3

__________ capitalism evolved in the second half of the twentieth century and is associated with nuclear power and the computer.

A) Postmodern
B) Early-market
C) Late-multinational
D) Mid-monopoly

Answer 3

C

Question 4

From a postmodernist perspective, which of the following words does NOT describe the economy?

A) inequality
B) insecurity
C) uncertainty
D) incoherent

Question 5

From a postmodernist perspective, which of the following words does NOT describe the culture?

A) uncertainty
B) fragmented
C) rootless
D) unsatisfying

Question 6

The term __________ refers to the process by which one part of a society grows behind other parts during periods of rapid social change.

A) culture shock
B) future shock
C) cultural lag
D) reverse globalization

Question 7

Traditionally, __________ described the experiences of missionaries, Peace Corps volunteers, and travelers entering a strange, alien culture for the first time.

A) societal alienation
B) culture shock
C) cultural lag
D) reverse globalization

Question 8

In the past, locally owned banks, markets, pharmacies, funeral homes, churches, bars, and restaurants provided the social fabric upon which community was formed. Lofland referred to these relationships as

A) primary secondary
B) Gemeinschaft
C) organic
D) mechanical

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a postmodernist description of the human condition?

A) fragmentation
B) ephemeral
C) chaotic
D) integral

Question 10

The text observes that we are not totally free to choose our network and our alternatives are limited by society. This notion reflects the __________ model.

A) alienation
B) ephemeral
C) choice-constraint
D) social network

Question 11

Sociologists who believe in community __________ argue that the profound economic, social, and technological changes wrought by globalization have destroyed community and created isolated and fragmented individuals.

A) lost
B) saved
C) liberated
D) globalized

Question 12

Sociologists who believe in community __________ argue that community has not withered away but merely changed in response to the forces of globalization.

A) altered
B) saved
C) liberated
D) reborn

Question 13

Sociologists who believe in community ___________ argue that our images of the community are highly romanticized.

A) reborn
B) saved
C) altered
D) liberated

Question 14

Wellman's analysis determined that most of the participants in his study fell into one of four personal community types. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

A) community liberated
B) community estranged
C) community altered
D) community lost

Question 15

According to the text's discussion of what we know about the community at the beginning of the twenty-first century,

A) community ties are broadly supported ties, not narrow, specialized relationships.
B) people are wrapped up in traditional densely knit, tightly bounded communities.
C) public sociability has replaced private intimacy.
D) communities have become domesticated and feminized.

Question 16

According to the text, our position in the social stratification system is the most important force in determining our networks.

Question 17

The text observes that cities create the critical mass necessary for the birth of subcultures, but they do not provide the conditions necessary for subcultures to become a world unto themselves.

Question 18

Community decline theorists state that the city creates isolated individuals.

Question 19

The media and the public have generally agreed that our modern, urban way of life enhances traditional values.

Question 20

The text concludes that the strength of social networks in the postmodern world is freedom and flexibility.

Question 21

Explain David Harvey's position on postmodernism.

Question 22

Claude Fischer tested three assumptions of the decline of community theory. Detail these three assumptions and describe what Fischer found.

Question 23

In some detail, outline Wellman's community typology.