Emergent Social Movements: Promoting and Resisting Change
Implications for a Postmodern World and Social Dilemma
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Large amount of people who are not in the same location but are engaging in similar behaviors.
What is mass behavior?
100
The idea that technology plays a defining role in shaping society.
What is technological determinism?
100
The transformation of a culture over time.
What is social change
100
Activity that is intended to bring social change.
What is activism.
100
An increase in the belief of progress, technology, and science.
What is modernity?
200
Group of people who engage in disorderly behavior towards people and/or property.
What is a riot?
200
The spread of material and non-material culture to new cultural groups regardless of the movement of people.
What is cultural diffusion?
200
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions.
What is major physical event?
200
An attempt to resist social change, maintain the status quo, or go back to an earlier form of social order.
What is regressive?
200
When a behavior is rational for an individual but it can lead to a disaster when practiced by many people.
What is a social dilemma?
300
This type of mass behavior is only followed for a short period of time.
What is a fad?
300
Influencing a culture by adopting another culture's products.
What is cultural imperialism?
300
What was one of the most important social changes?
What is Civil Rights Movement?
300
An effort to promote forward-thinking social change.
What is progressive?
300
When a resource is depleted or degraded because individuals over-exploit it.
What is tragedy of the commons?
400
Group of people gathered together with a common focus.
What is a crowd?
400
When a society loses their uniqueness.
What is cultural leveling?
400
What does the aging of baby boomers result in?
What is a demographic factor?
400
Any social group with leadership, organization, and an ideological commitment to promote or resist social change.
What is a social movement?
400
What refers to the social conditions and attitudes characteristic of post-industrialized societies, individuals are skeptical of science and technology.
What is postmodernity?
500
This type of mass behaviors involves the action of wearing a certain type of clothing based on a particular place.
What is fashion?
500
The time between changes in material culture or technology changes your values, norms, meanings, and laws.
What is cultural lag?
500
What is a discovery and innovation that was a big social change?
What is fire or the wheel?
500
What are two stages of social movements?
What is coalescence and incipient?
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When people have to contribute to a collective resource even if the might not benefit from it.