Which statement about social revolutions is correct?
Correct answer B. Often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime
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There are two types of group. Which one is closer and more intimate?
Correct answer C. Primary
What are alterations over time in social structures, culture and patterns of behaviour called?
Correct answer E. Social changes
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When we move from primary groups to secondary groups, what kind of shift in control also takes place?
Correct answer A. Informal to formal
Which theory argues that only certain kinds of people will be drawn to take part in a particular episode of collective behaviour?
Correct answer B. Convergence
In China, social control works largely through group pressure, with every individual belonging to a small unit. What is this unit called?
Correct answer B. Danwei
What is a large number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms called?
Correct answer D. Collectivity
To a large extent, the study of deviant behaviour is the study of what?
Correct answer C. Criminal behaviour
What is gossip usually about?
Correct answer C. Personal affairs
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How do the factors behind downward mobility compare with those behind upward mobility?
Correct answer B. Same
A preoccupation with eating habits based on the Atkins diet is an example of what?
Correct answer B. Craze
Which theory of how social movements develop currently dominates academic thinking?
Correct answer D. Resource Mobilisation
Societal reaction theory starts from the idea that deviance is created when an act is labelled as what?
Correct answer A. Deviant
Which type of movement seeks progressive change using methods different from those that have failed before, and is often seen as anti-government?
Correct answer A. Revolutionary
More women today are entering different fields and earning their own status in society. This gives women a route of mobility other than what?
Correct answer C. Marriage
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What still greatly limits the career mobility of married women?
Correct answer C. Household duties
When a group concentrates heavily on its own survival, it often loses sight of its original purpose. What is this loss of focus called?
Correct answer C. Goal displacement
People who welcome new experiences and tend to reject traditional forms of authority are said to be experiencing what?
Correct answer A. Modernity
Who is a leading exponent of the view that the criminal justice system serves the interests of the powerful?
Correct answer B. Richard Quinney
Which social psychologist drew a useful distinction between conformity and obedience?
Correct answer B. Stanley Milgram