Unit 7 Review

Which of the following is true about collective behavior?

• 
  Collective behavior is easy to study for sociologists.

• 
  Collective behavior happens more often when the social order and norms break down.

• Collective behavior lasts the longest of any type of group.

• 
  Collective behavior is never violent.

The first stage of a social movement is emergence, which is where a social movement comes into being.

• True

• False

Social movements are rare in today’s society.

• True

• False

The Salem Witch Trials are an example of a craze.

• True- It is an example of a craze.

• False- It is an example of mass hysteria.

Social movements often push for change outside of institutional means, such as by using protests.

• True

• False

In order for a social movement to develop, people have to believe that they can make the changes through institutional means, like lawsuits.

• True

• False

Collective behavior can do which of the following?

• Appear

• Change form

• Disappear

• All of the above

Which social movements are social movements that seek partial change for individual?

• Alterative

• Reformative

• Redemptive

• Revolutionary

A situation that might cause a panic is which of the following?

• A sale at the mall

• A new idea that catches on

• A new fashion that becomes popular

• A burning building

Contagion theory argues that crowds have what type of effect on people?

• Invigorating

• Depressing

• Hypnotic

• Calming