*.
The view that people DO NOT revolt when they are super-oppressed, but
her when things are getting better is whi
a) "J-Curve"
b) Marx/conflict
c) Culture conflict
d) "Last-straw" view
e) Passivity theory
*. People with money move into a deteriorating neighborhood, buy and
improve property, and increase the value of the area.
This is known as:
a) Capitalism
b) Gentrification
c) Suburbanism
d) "Greening of America"
e) "Greying of America"
*. The view that social change does not proceed in a single direction an
involves continual cycles of growth and decay is:
a) Conflict theory
b) Cyclical theory
c) Evolutionary theory
d) Marxism
e) Functionalist theory
*. The perspective depicting history as divided into steplike levels
constituting sequential stages and characterized by an underlying tre
a) The evolutionary perspective
b) The cyclical perspective
c) The functionalist perspective
d) The conflict perspective
e) The Marxian/historical perspective
*. The perspective arguing that tensions between competing groups
are the basic source of social change is:
a) Marxian materialism
b) The evolutionary perspective
c) The functionalist perspective
d) The cyclical perspective
e) The conflict perspective
*. A fad that becomes a virtually all-consuming passion is a:
a) Conventional norm
b) Craze
c) Fashion
d) Frenzy
e) Hysterical norm
*. A collection of people with little in common except for their viewing
of a common event is a:
a) Casual crowd
b) Conventional crowd
c) Deindividualized crowd
d) Expressive crowd
e) Random group
*. A psychological state of diminished identity and self-awareness coupled
with high suggestibility is:
a) Alienation
b) Deindividualization
c) False consciousness
d) Hypnotic social action
e) Psychological regression
*. A movement that is less concerned with institutional change
than with renovating
or renewing of people from within is a:
a) Expressive movement
b) Revolution
c) Reform
d) Religious movement
e) Social manifesto
*. The gap between what people actually have and what they have come to
expect and feel to be righfully theirs is known as:
a) Absolute deprivation
b) Relative deprivation
c) Rightful expectations
d) Social greed
e) Value-added deprivation
*. Which of the following IS NOT true of an IDEOLOGY?
a) They are pre-conscious
b) They are emotionally charged
c) They are individual attitudes or opinions
d) They provide non-coercive forms of social control
e) All of the above are true of an ideology
*.
The average life expectancy of people born in 1900 was roughly:
a) 33 years
b) 40 years
c) 50 years
d) 60 years
e) 72.5 years
*. Which of the following leaders comes closest to representing an
example of charismatic authority?
a) The Pope
b) George Bush
c) Jesse Jackson
d) William Rehnquist
e) Queen Elizabeth
*. According to the text, a system of government in which authority is
concentrated in the hands of
rulers who deny citizens any participation in government is called:
a) Authoritarianism
b) Totalitarianism
c) Communism
d) Anarcho-syndicalism
e) Dictatorship
*. According to lecture, CYBERSPACE is:
a) A "community" where people come together with telephones,
modems, and personal computers and never physically meet
b) The area of a community where there are no factories
c) A term used to describe "empty-headed" people
d) A community where most people are unemployed
e) A senior citizen's community
*. In your instructor's view, which of the following IS NOT a medical
problem that he suggested we deal with?
a) Racism
b) Inner city violence
c) Cancer
d) AIDS
e) All of the above
*. What is the leading cause of death for young black males
(age 15-24)?
a) Kidney disease
b) Homicide
c) Accidents
d) AIDS
e) Heart disease
*. The theory that sees social change as the result of struggles between
competing groups in a society is:
a) Structural-functionalism
b) Conflict theory
c) Dramatrugical theory
d) Secondary group theory
e) Chaos theory
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