What idea is central to the concept of a social movement?
Correct answer C. People intervene in the process of social change
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Which statement about social revolutions is correct?
Correct answer B. Often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime
What are alterations over time in social structures, culture and patterns of behaviour called?
Correct answer E. Social changes
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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
What is a large number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms called?
Correct answer D. Collectivity
What is gossip usually about?
Correct answer C. Personal affairs
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
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
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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
Which model involves extensive use of public money to promote economic development?
Correct answer C. State capitalism
The type of capitalism that thrives in some developing countries is marked by a high degree of what?
Correct answer E. Repression
How does the functionalist view of social change see both development and modernisation?
Correct answer D. Slow and adaptive
What are changes in the social structure of a society called?
Correct answer A. Social Change
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Changes in social relationships are mainly what kind of change?
Correct answer C. Social Change
How many stages of social development did Auguste Comte describe?
Correct answer C. Three stages
In the Marxian view, each historical stage contained within itself the seeds of what?
Correct answer A. Both b and c
How do functionalists regard change?
Correct answer B. Constant
What is a new combination or new use of existing knowledge called?
Correct answer B. Invention