The Spark
The term that refers to the substantial political upheaval that occurred in many North African and Arabian Peninsula Nations from 2010 to 2012.
What is the Arab Spring?
Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and values.
What is Social Change?
The theory that society's natural tendency is toward social order with change in one part of society counter-balanced by adjustments in others.
What is the equilibrium model?
Those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
What is vested interests?
The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel.
What is resource mobilization?
The country where the Arab Spring began.
What is Tunisia?
According to the social evolution theory, societies progress from _______ to _______ over time.
What is simple to complex?
The sociologist responsible for the equilibrium model.
Who is Talcott Parsons?
The acronym NIMBY stands for...
What is, "Not in my backyard"?
This term refers to recognizing the impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think and act and taking responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others.
What is personal sociology?
The name of the 26 year old street vendor who set himself on fire in protest and in resignation to corruption in his country.
Who is Mohamed Bouazizi?
The social perspective associated with the social evolution theory of social change.
What is the Functionalist Perspective?
One of the four process of the equilibrium model that refers to the increasing complexity of social organization.
What is differentiation?
He argued the conflict is a normal and desirable aspect of social change.
Who is Karl Marx?
This process of bringing the insights gained through sociological observation and analysis into the public sphere, thereby seeking to being about positive social change.
What is Public Sociology?
In Egypt, the newsworthy locatation of many rallies and protests with goals of economic and political reforms that eventually led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
What is Tahrir Square?
He is responsible for the Law of Three Stages.
Who is August Comte?
An example of ____________, the division of physicians into obstetricians, internists, surgeons, etc.
What is adaptive upgrading?
An organized collective activity to being about or resist fundamental change in an existing forum or society.
What is Social Movement?
An action the average person can take that puts sociology into practice.
What is Volunteer?
The backlash of reprisal and authoritarian rule resulting from the Arab Spring.
What is the Arab Winter?
A theory of social change that holds that societies progress from simple to complex over time.
What is Social Evolution?
Parson's third process is identified as the _______ of previously excluded groups because of gender, race, ethnicity, or social class.
What is inclusion?
Necessary component of social movement that describes the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
What is Relative Deprivation?
Those is responsible for the current, past, and future conditions of society.
Who is everyone?