Globalization True or False?

Modernity is the product of social changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution

• True

• False

Social change is controversial.

• True

• False

Social changes results from invention, discovery, and diffusion.

• True

• False

Modernization means that fewer people live in small, rural villages

• True

• False

The phrase "essentially united in spite of all separating factors" is a good description of what Tonnies called gemeinschaft.

• True

• False

Emile Durkheim said that modern societies are held together by difference, a process he called "organic solidarity."

• True

• False

Emile Dukheim was more optimistic about modern life than Tonnies, but he still thought people would feel isolated in modern life and feared anomie would result.

• True

• False

Mass-Society Theory argues that the scale of social life is increasing leaving people feeling lost in a world of vast and impersonal bureaucracies.

• True

• False

The theory of postmodernity claims that, in important respects, modernity has failed to live up to its promise.

• True

• False

Some societies change, others do not.

• True

• False