Option A: countermovement
Option B: social amelioration
Option C: counter modernization
Option D: countenance
Correct Answer: countermovement ✔
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Option A: McDonaldization
Option B: post-modernization
Option C: the service industry
Option D: the culture of commerce
Correct Answer: McDonaldization ✔
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Option A: Functional theory
Option B: interactionist theory
Option C: Conflict theory
Option D: Cyclical theory
Correct Answer: interactionist theory ✔
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Option A: Bureaucratization
Option B: Decline
Option C: Coalescence
Option D: Incipience
Correct Answer: Incipience ✔
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Option A: Globalization
Option B: Political Process
Option C: Postmodernism
Option D: Linear Evolutionary
Correct Answer: Political Process ✔
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Option A: Social movements
Option B: Developments
Option C: Conventions
Option D: Hysterias
Correct Answer: Social movements ✔
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Option A: legendary tales
Option B: urban legends
Option C: sports legends
Option D: schoolyard tales
Correct Answer: urban legends ✔
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Option A: metaphor
Option B: contagion
Option C: convention
Option D: rumor
Correct Answer: rumor ✔
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Option A: clear
Option B: explicit
Option C: encouraged
Option D: vague
Correct Answer: vague ✔
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Option A: contagion
Option B: convention
Option C: group thinks
Option D: expressiveness
Correct Answer: contagion ✔
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Option A: The United States is being restructured from an agrarian to an industrial society
Option B: Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy
Option C: High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy ✔
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Option A: imitation suggestibility and circular reaction
Option B: precipitating factors structural strain and structural conduciveness
Option C: norms of the status quo emergent norms and new norms
Option D: fashions fads and crazes
Correct Answer: imitation suggestibility and circular reaction ✔
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Option A: the resource mobilization approach
Option B: the deprivation approaches
Option C: the capitalist collapse approach
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: the deprivation approaches ✔
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Option A: presents three preconditions for collective behavior
Option B: states that each determinant expands the range of potential final outcomes
Option C: is of little use in understanding the complexity of collective behavior.
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: none of the above ✔
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Option A: involves contained anxiety
Option B: is usually associated with some mysterious force
Option C: never involves physical symptoms
Option D: none of the above
Correct Answer: is usually associated with some mysterious force ✔
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Option A: Rumors are effective ways to disseminate reliable information
Option B: Rumors are easy to verify
Option C: Rumors are transmitted from person to person in a relatively rapid fashion
Option D: Rumors typically arise when people trust official sources of information
Correct Answer: Rumors are transmitted from person to person in a relatively rapid fashion ✔
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Option A: Development
Option B: Evolution
Option C: Modernization
Option D: Social change
Correct Answer: Modernization ✔
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Option A: classes
Option B: ethnic groups
Option C: nations
Option D: religions
Correct Answer: classes ✔
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Option A: refers to new forms of social disintegration
Option B: is the adjustment gap between material and nonmaterial culture?
Option C: occurs when the dominant group forces change upon the subordinate group which lags behind
Option D: is society’s way of avoiding the social problems that ensue from social change
Correct Answer: is the adjustment gap between material and nonmaterial culture? ✔
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Option A: Lenski argues that evolution depends largely on changes in a society’s level of technology and made of economic production
Option B: Social Darwinists like Spencer see evolution as inevitably leading to the downfall of society
Option C: Contemporary approaches take a unilinear view of evolution and assume all change equals progress
Option D: Parsons suggested that societies tend become simpler over time
Correct Answer: Lenski argues that evolution depends largely on changes in a society’s level of technology and made of economic production ✔
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Option A: cultural lag
Option B: diffusion
Option C: social change
Option D: modernization
Correct Answer: social change ✔
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Option A: Social values
Option B: Real traits
Option C: Picture of himself
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Social values ✔
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Option A: efficiency calculability affordability consistent decor
Option B: efficiency calculability uniformity automation
Option C: efficiency dehumanization automation high calories
Option D: efficiency Big Mac large fries’ milkshake
Correct Answer: efficiency calculability uniformity automation ✔
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Option A: a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
Option B: traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
Option C: the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
Option D: the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control
Correct Answer: the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control ✔
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Option A: William F. Ogburn
Option B: Talcott Parsons
Option C: Auguste Comte
Option D: Thorstein Veblen
Correct Answer: Thorstein Veblen ✔
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Option A: functionalist perspective
Option B: conflict perspective
Option C: interactionist perspective
Option D: each of the above
Correct Answer: functionalist perspective ✔
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Option A: Japan
Option B: Great Britain
Option C: the United States
Option D: all of the above
Correct Answer: Great Britain ✔
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Option A: Change
Option B: no change
Option C: neutrality
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Change ✔
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Option A: cultural Exchange
Option B: Diffusion
Option C: Imperialism
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Diffusion ✔
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Option A: Intercultural harmony
Option B: Cultural contacts
Option C: diffusion
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: diffusion ✔
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Option A: Invention
Option B: discovery
Option C: Social Change
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Invention ✔
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Option A: Function
Option B: Constant
Option C: Change
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Constant ✔
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Option A: progress
Option B: it’s won destruction
Option C: next stage
Option D: both b and c
Correct Answer: both b and c ✔
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Option A: Four stages of social change
Option B: Two stages
Option C: Three stages
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Three stages ✔
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Option A: Individual changes
Option B: Social Change
Option C: Cultural Change
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Social Change ✔
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Option A: Social Change
Option B: Cultural Change
Option C: Structural Change
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Cultural Change ✔
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Option A: necessary and functional
Option B: slow and adaptive
Option C: responsive but counterproductive
Option D: humanistic and rational
Correct Answer: slow and adaptive ✔
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Option A: repression
Option B: anomie
Option C: success
Option D: relative depression
Correct Answer: repression ✔
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Option A: A welfare states
Option B: Democracy
Option C: State capitalism
Option D: Neo-democracy
Correct Answer: State capitalism ✔
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Option A: hysteria
Option B: countenance
Option C: modernity
Option D: a cultural hangover
Correct Answer: modernity ✔
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Option A: immanence
Option B: anomie
Option C: hysteria
Option D: goal displacement
Correct Answer: goal displacement ✔
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Option A: Reactionary
Option B: Redundant
Option C: Reformist
Option D: Radical
Correct Answer: Revolutionary ✔
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Option A: Contagion
Option B: Conflict
Option C: Resource Development
Option D: Frame Alignment
Correct Answer: Resource Development ✔
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Option A: fad
Option B: craze
Option C: interest
Option D: fashion
Correct Answer: craze ✔
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Option A: family
Option B: personal affairs
Option C: crimes
Option D: military record
Correct Answer: personal affairs ✔
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A __________ is a substantial number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms ?
Option A: craze
Option B: group
Option C: contagion
Option D: collectivity
Correct Answer: collectivity ✔
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Option A: Contagion
Option B: Convergence
Option C: Emergence
Option D: Structural
Correct Answer: Convergence ✔
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Option A: Reformist movements
Option B: Social changes
Option C: Collective behaviors
Option D: Modernization movements
Correct Answer: Social movements ✔
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Option A: involve the gradual evolution of existing state and class structures into new social arrangements
Option B: are most likely to occur when political
Option C: appear to follow no “natural history”
Option D: often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime
Correct Answer: often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime ✔
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Option A: social movements appear only in times of controlled slow social change
Option B: social movements occur inside the institutional framework of everyday life
Option C: people intervene in the process of social change
Option D: people do not readily undertake joint activity
Correct Answer: people intervene in the process of social change ✔
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Option A: growth of a generalized belief
Option B: precipitating factors
Option C: structural conduciveness
Option D: structural strain
Correct Answer: structural conduciveness ✔
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Option A: deindividualization
Option B: invulnerability
Option C: suggestibility
Option D: transformation
Correct Answer: transformation ✔
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Option A: Fashions are norms fads are not
Option B: Fashions are long-lived fads are short-lived
Option C: Fashions enjoy widespread acceptance within society fads enjoy acceptance only among a segment of the population
Option D: Fashions include crazes fads do not Mass hysteria
Correct Answer: Fashions enjoy widespread acceptance within society fads enjoy acceptance only among a segment of the population ✔
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Option A: literacy education and communication
Option B: a centrally dominated social order
Option C: extreme social inequalities
Option D: homogenous social groups and organizations
Correct Answer: literacy education and communication ✔
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Option A: a restriction in the amount of information available to the general public
Option B: a plateauing of the amount of automation the workplace
Option C: a centralized accumulation of power in the hands of those who have access to computers
Option D: an increased involvement in society by people with disabilities
Correct Answer: a centralized accumulation of power in the hands of those who have access to computers ✔
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Option A: try to predict the course of a civilization or society
Option B: focus on analyzing a single society at a time
Option C: believe that cultures pass through stages of growth quite different from the ones individuals pass through
Option D: postulate that each culture possesses a life span of approximately 200 years
Correct Answer: try to predict the course of a civilization or society ✔
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Option A: clashes over resources and values
Option B: diffusion
Option C: the mass media
Option D: innovation
Correct Answer: innovation ✔
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Option A: Planning
Option B: Diffusion
Option C: Social struggle
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Diffusion ✔
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Option A: efficiency calculability affordability consistent decor
Option B: efficiency calculability uniformity automation
Option C: efficiency dehumanization automation high calories
Option D: efficiency Big Mac large fries’ milkshake
Correct Answer: efficiency calculability uniformity automation ✔
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Option A: alienation
Option B: amorality
Option C: anomie
Option D: ascription
Correct Answer: anomie ✔
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Option A: social solidarity and cohesion
Option B: the interpretive understanding of action
Option C: women’s experiences and gendered knowledge
Option D: power domination and conflict
Correct Answer: power domination and conflict ✔
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Option A: Karl Marx
Option B: Talcott Parsons
Option C: Emile Durkheim
Option D: each of above
Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔
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Option A: Albert Einstein
Option B: Charles Darwin
Option C: Harriet Martineau
Option D: Benjamin Franklin
Correct Answer: Charles Darwin ✔
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Option A: Automobile
Option B: Radio
Option C: both a and b
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: both a and b ✔
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Option A: Priceless
Option B: Costly
Option C: Ineffective
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Costly ✔
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Option A: one
Option B: two
Option C: three
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: two ✔
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Option A: material invention
Option B: Social Invention
Option C: both of these
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Social Invention ✔
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Option A: Guided by supernatural wisdom
Option B: Stage of disbelief
Option C: Stage of scientific progress
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Guided by supernatural wisdom ✔
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Option A: Oswald Spengler
Option B: Arnold Toynbee
Option C: Pitirim Sorokin
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Pitirim Sorokin ✔
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Option A: Variable
Option B: Constant
Option C: Problem
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Constant ✔
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Option A: Social Change
Option B: Cultural Change
Option C: Language Change
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Cultural Change ✔
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Option A: Overlapping of two concepts
Option B: That there is no distinction between both
Option C: Changes of both kind
Option D: None of these
Correct Answer: Changes of both kind ✔
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