_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives ?

   A. open mobility
   B. lateral mobility
   C. intragenerational mobility
   D. intergenerational mobility

2. 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

3. 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

4. Which term does John Thompson use to describe the sort of social relations created by the mass media ?

   A. face-to-face interaction
   B. mediated interaction
   C. mediated quasi interaction
   D. mediated multiple -interaction

5. Central to the concept of social movement is the idea that _____________?

   A. social movements appear only in times of controlled slow social change
   B. social movements occur inside the institutional framework of everyday life
   C. people intervene in the process of social change
   D. people do not readily undertake joint activity

6. A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ?

   A. Max Weber
   B. Erik Olin-Wright
   C. John Goldthorpe
   D. Karl Marx

7. What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ?

   A. a fairground rides
   B. a circus
   C. a puppet theatre
   D. a ballet

8. The term informal economy is used to describe ?

   A. work where no money changes hands
   B. the activities of small businesses
   C. transactions outside the sphere of regular employment
   D. organizations with less rigid rules and procedures

9. What is the term used to describe the stages from one’s birth into a family with a specific status through formation of a new family unit ?

   A. intergenerational mobility
   B. socioeconomic life cycle
   C. vertical mobility
   D. none of the above

10. Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________?

    A. media saturation
    B. media globalization
    C. media penetration
    D. media imperialism