What is the spread of cultural traits from one group to another called?
Correct answer C. Diffusion
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Europeans gave firearms, whisky and smallpox to the American Indians in exchange for corn, potatoes and tobacco. What is this an example of?
Correct answer C. Diffusion
What is a deviant an agent of?
Correct answer B. Change
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In recent elections, which nation or nations have seen a significant fall in voter turnout?
Correct answer B. Great Britain
Which sociological perspective tends to play down change?
Correct answer C. Functionalist perspective
Which social economist coined the term ‘vested interests’?
Correct answer D. Thorstein Veblen
To what have sociologists such as Bordo (1993) attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures?
Correct answer C. The new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control
What is a person consciously motivated by, first and foremost?
Correct answer A. Social values
Which term refers to fundamental changes over time in patterns of culture, social structure and social behaviour?
Correct answer B. Social change
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Which statement about evolutionary perspectives on social change is accurate?
Correct answer C. Lenski argues that evolution depends largely on changes in a society’s level of technology and mode of economic production
What does cultural lag refer to?
Correct answer D. Is the adjustment gap between material and nonmaterial culture
According to Marx, conflict between which groups is the main source of social change?
Correct answer D. Classes
Which process involves a society moving from traditional to industrial social and economic arrangements?
Correct answer C. Modernisation
Which statement about rumours is accurate?
Correct answer A. Rumours are transmitted from person to person in a relatively rapid fashion
Which statement about mass hysteria is correct?
Correct answer A. Is usually associated with some mysterious force
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Which statement about the value-added model of collective behaviour is correct?
Correct answer D. None of the above
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