Social Movements/urbanization
Globalization
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100
A key factor that distinguishes social movements from other important mediating mechanisms or institutions within a democracy is that social movements use _____________ tactics to promote social change.
What is disruptive (on non-institutional or unconventional)?
100
A society based more on the development of knowledge and the spread of information rather than the manufacture of material goods is known as
What is post-industrial?
100
Sociology is
What is the study of patterns of social relations and how they influence people's actions and beliefs?
100
In the United States today, the richest 20% of income earners receive ___ percent of all income, while the richest 20% of wealth holders own ___ percent of all wealth.
What is 50 percent and 85 percent?
100
A rapid drop in the crude death rate, which typically follows industrialization and better sanitation, is the main reason for the population explosion in third world nations according to
What is demographic transition theory?
200
The free rider problem describes the situation where a person believes strongly in the goals of a social movement and stands to benefit if movement succeeds but ________________.
What is "does nothing to help the movement achieve its goals"?
200
Globalization is defined as
What is "a condition of interdependence and connection among nations, groups, and individuals"?
200
The basic problem that __________________ attempts to solve is the problem of size.
What is bureaucratic organization?
200
The four key indicators of social class are
What is wealth, income, education, and occupation?
200
We argued in class that most people do what they are told because they accept the ____________________ of the person or entity who/which is telling them what to do.
What is legitimate authority?
300
Some movements use _________________ to overcome the free rider problem.
What is selective incentives?
300
A belief in progress, the benefits of science, and human control of social change is _____________
What is modernism?
300
Triangulation is the use of ______________________ to help ensure an accurate answer to a sociological research question.
What is multiple kinds of data (and methods)?
300
Sociologists and biologists mostly agree that race is not biological but is ___________ constructed.
What is socially?
300
Marx, Durkheim, and Weber often disagreed but they did agree about one thing concerning religion, which is that ______________
What is society is becoming secularized (religion is declining in importance)?
400
______________ and ________________ are two key theories that try to explain why we have social movements.
What is economic deprivation and resource mobilization?
400
Globalization has ________________ within country and between country inequality.
What is increased?
400
According to this theory, the best way to understand why people do what they do is to examine their self-interests and see how they use power to get what they want.
What is rational choice theory?
400
How is inequality changing with respect to class, gender, and race/ethnicity?
What is for class inequality is increasing but for gender and race/ethnicity, it is decreasing (but slowly)?
400
Social placement/sorting, equality of opportunity, and socialization are key social functions of _______________.
What is education?
500
An action by a collective group to cause death or bodily harm to civilians/non-combatants with intent to provoke fear, intimidation in opponents for political, social change is _____________.
What is terrorism?
500
______________ are skeptical about the idea of linear progress, that science is always good for people, and that humans can human control of change. Instead, they believe in the multiplicity of peoples, histories, paths to future.
What are postmodernists?
500
Conflict theory argues _____________ is more important than _____________, and that ______________ is more important than values.
What is society, the individual, power?
500
This theory says that inequality is a product of some class or other groups having much greater power over others. Such dominant classes or groups use that power to control the flow of money, information, goods, and even politics to keep those things working for themselves, NOT society as a whole.
What is conflict theory?
500
In the United States, the crime rate declined by nearly ___ percent between the year _____ and 2015.
What is 50 percent and 1991 (or early 1990s)?
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