Sociology chapters 9&17

Hula hoops, streaking, and Pokémon cards are all examples of ________

• fads

• fashion

• style

• social movement

Social movements are defined as ________

• unlawful activity in the form of rioting.

• widely dispersed efforts to force people to conform.

• any formal organization that uses propaganda.

• organized activity that encourages or discourages social change.

Peter Berger describes modernization in terms of several important changes. Read the responses below and select the one that is NOT a pattern of change that Berger links to modernity.

• A smaller share of people living in urban places

• The expansion of personal choice

• Increasing social diversity

• A future orientation and growing awareness of time

Fashion differs from a fad in that fashion ________

• is shorter lived.

• is less conventional.

• reflects established cultural values.

• never changes.

Comparing various social changes, we correctly conclude that ________

• all changes are planned.

• fads have the greatest importance.

• most changes go completely unnoticed by people.

• some changes matter more than others.

Because of their intense emotion, mobs ________

• can be violent and destructive.

• tend to last a long time.

• include people who get to know one another.

• are peaceful but very sad.

All are the following causes of social change:

• ideas, generation, and conflict.

• conflict, culture, ideas, and generation.

• culture, conflict, ideas, and social movement.

• social movement, gender, race, and demographic location.

Sociologists point out that ________

• some societies change and many others do not.

• social change happens all the time.

• all social change is good.

• social change is a very rare event.

Which of the following is a good example of a crowd?

• Many people walking on a city street who stop to observe an auto accident

• Many people who are graduates of the same college

• A few people who gather at a city park every Saturday to play tennis

• A few people who live in the same college dorm

Scholars who take a postmodernist approach claim that ________

• in many respects, modernity has failed.

• science holds the important answers.

• people should be optimistic about their future.

• life keeps getting better.