What must happen for a deviant act to be classed as a crime?
Correct answer D. The state must undertake a political process of criminalising it
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Which statement about mass hysteria is correct?
Correct answer A. Is usually associated with some mysterious force
What do labelling theorists argue?
Correct answer D. Contend that in many cases those labelled deviant adopt that identity and pursue a career of deviance
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Which statement about the value-added model of collective behaviour is correct?
Correct answer D. None of the above
Which statement about white-collar and corporate crime is correct?
Correct answer D. Are committed by relatively affluent people often in the course of business activities
Which explanation of social movements holds that revolutions are most likely when a long period of social and economic improvement is followed by a sharp reversal?
Correct answer A. The deprivation approaches
According to contagion theory, how does the ‘mob mind’ develop?
Correct answer B. Imitation suggestibility and circular reaction
Which statement describes a central change in modern life identified by futurists?
Correct answer C. Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy
Early theories of collective behaviour stressed which idea, that crowd behaviour resembles a mental illness that individuals cannot resist?
Correct answer C. Contagion
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According to emergent norm theory, collective behaviour arises when expectations about how to behave are what?
Correct answer C. Vague
What is unverified information passed from one person to another called?
Correct answer A. Rumour
What are rumours about a strange event that supposedly happened to someone distant from the storyteller often called?
Correct answer E. Urban legends
Compared with fads or crazes, which form of collective behaviour usually lasts longer, is better organised and goal-directed, and has a more lasting impact?
Correct answer E. Social movements
Which approach looks at the changing relationship over time between social movements and large-scale economic and political systems?
Correct answer D. Political Process
Which term usually describes the early phase of a social movement, marked by a general mood of discontent?
Correct answer E. Incipience
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Which of these is NOT identified as a major theoretical perspective on social change?
Correct answer D. Interactionist theory
Efficiency, calculability and predictability are all principles of what Ritzer called what?
Correct answer A. McDonaldization
What is the term for resisting certain aspects of development and social change in an attempt to neutralise their effects?
Correct answer D. Countermovement
Durkheim’s well-known definition of religion contains three main elements. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Correct answer D. Religion involves belief in God
Which concept does Durkheim use to explain how religious ceremonies create social solidarity?
Correct answer B. Collective effervescence