True or False. Social Change can only make positive changes to social structures.
False. Social Change can be both positive and negative.
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What is one reason resource mobilization theory has been criticized?
It downplays the importance of grievances and spontaneity as triggers for social movements.
It overlooks the crucial process through which vague individual grievances lead to new collective identities and organized political agendas.
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What are countermovements?
Countermovements are social movements that seek to reverse or resist changes advocated by an opposing movement.
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What are stakes in either maintaining or transforming the status quo?
Vested Interests
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State one example of a normal accident.
Plane crashes, accidental radiation release, and blackouts.
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List three examples of collective behavior.
Mob Violence
Candlelight Vigils
Mardi Gras
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According to political process theory, a social movement needs what two things?
It needs political opportunities and an "insurgent consciousness".
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What is one requirement for a countermovement to develop?
The original movement must have achieved moderate success.
Individuals must feel that their status, power, or social values are threatened.
Countermovements need powerful allies.
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What is the temporary period of maladjustment during which the social structure adapts to new technologies?
Cultural Lag
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What can sociologists do to ensure that social change promotes social justice?
Study techniques for conflict resolution.
Develop new social justice perspectives for how power can be distributed better.
Model social change strategies that improve social well being.
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What is the big difference between collective behavior and social movements?
Social movements are organized, relatively broad based, long term, and intended to foster social change.
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SMOS (Social Movement Organizations) can be organized in what two basic ways?
They can be organized as professional or as volunteer organizations.
300
Is technological innovation important for social change?
Yes, it is the major impetus to social change. The level of technology available to us determines the limits of what a society can do.
300
The book lists four downsides to information technology. Name one.
New forms of crime.
New Defense concerns.
New Health Problems.
New Inefficiencies.
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What is the core concern of sociology according to the book? Hint: Look at 395.
It is concerned with the interaction of social groups and role that power plays in those interactions.
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What is one thing that both collective behavior and social movements accomplish?
They both challenge the status quo.
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Mobilization is the process through which a social movement gains needed resources. What are two of those resources?
Weapons, technologies, goods, money, and members are all examples of what can be used.
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What is technology?
Technology involves the human application of knowledge to the making of tools and to the use of natural resources. This also includes our beliefs, values, and attitudes toward the tools of technology.
400
What is a modern example of Technological Imperative?
Ex: Social Networking Sites, Smart Phones, and Internet.
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Open Ended Question (Quick! Answer for Awesome Points!) Do you think that our society has grown too dependent on technology to fulfill its wants and needs?
Answers will vary, but our dependence on technology has made us more susceptible to normal accidents.
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Based on the Resource Mobilization Theory, what sparks social movements?
Organization and resources
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What is the key factor for those who are most likely to be recruited through frame alignment?
Personal Ties and Networks.
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Is technology a component of culture?
Yes, it has been an important part of human culture since humans first started applying their knowledge to the making of tools.
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According to Thorstein Veblen, what group has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo?
Those for whom the status quo is profitable are said to have a vested interest in maintaining it.
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What stance does the book take on what sociologists should do with their knowledge of how social processes work?
The book suggests that it is the duty of a sociologist to be involved in conflict resolution, social justice, and social change.