A. people vote according to pragmatic issues and concerns
B. consumer identities are more important than class identities
C. personal cultural and environmental issues can mobilize political consciousness just as much as economic interests
D. all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?
A. new social movement theory
B. collective behavior theory
C. social strain theory
D. resource mobilization theory - Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?
A. the resource mobilization approach
B. the deprivation approaches
C. the capitalist collapse approach
D. none of the above - What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?
A. Globalization
B. Political Process
C. Postmodernism
D. Linear Evolutionary
E. Counter-modernization - A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?
A. slavery
B. Social class
C. caste
D. estates - Role-learning theory suggests that______________?
A. we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
B. we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
C. social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
D. roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations - Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that______________?
A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques - Mass-society theory suggests that______________?
A. the content of the media is determined market forces
B. the subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class
C. the media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
D. audiences make selective interpretations of media messages - One strength of ethnography is that______________?
A. the influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
B. it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
C. it is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
D. it can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities - Lombroso claimed that______________?
A. criminals were socialized into an underworld of crime
B. no act is intrinsically deviant
C. biological failings drove some people into crime
D. women were less likely to be arrested than men - Post-modernist writers have argued that______________?
A. we live in a world of superficial fragmented images
B. no theory is better than any other anything goes
C. society has changed, and we need new kinds of theory
D. all of the above
