Social Change and Collective Behavior

What is a long term effort to promote change in society?

• Cultural Diffusion

• Social Movement

• Cultural Lag

What is the spread of cultural traits from one society to another?

• Vested Interests

• Cultural Diffusion

• Ethnocentrism

What type of social movement involves a TOTAL CHANGE of society? (Politically, socially, economically)

• Revolutionary

• Redemptive

• Reformative

What type of social movement involves a limited change within an individual? (trying to get a person to change 1 thing about themselves)

• Reformative

• Redemptive

• Alternative

When some parts of culture change slower than other parts of culture, this is called?

• Ethnocentrism

• Vested Interests

• Cultural Lag

Which of these below describes a riot?

• A group that targets someone specific and uses violence.

• A group that is less unified, but destroys people and things out of convenience due to a lack of power.

Something that is "new" but gets old fast is called?

• Mass Hysteria

• Urban Legend

• Fad

Which of these correctly describes "mass hysteria?"

• Anxiety or fear over something that is not true.

• Anxiety and fear in reaction to a real threat.

Rumors are always true and completely verifiable.

• True

• False

Which of these is an example of "fashion" and how it is always changing and improving?

• Clothes

• Cars/Electronics

• Interior Design

• All of these