Crowds may engage in unpredictable behavior because_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. When old rules and laws are ignored, and rebellious crowds set up new rules of behavior social scientists call this situation________________?

   A. convergence
   B. revolution
   C. collective behavior
   D. coup d,etat

2. Crowds and masses differ in that___________________?

   A. masses are not personally connected to one another
   B. people in a crowd are in close proximity to one another
   C. collective behavior cannot take place in masses
   D. masses of people must always be in the same physical setting

3. History is often NOT considered a social science because_______________?

   A. its primary concern is to record events of the past
   B. historians do not use computers
   C. it does not study people
   D. it is not based on evidence

4. The transition from rural living to city living occurred because_______________?

   A. there was less need for farm workers as agriculture became mechanized
   B. factories were concentrated in cities
   C. social change dictated a new fad urban living
   D. of BOTH a decrease in the need for farm workers and the fact that factories were located in cities

5. Modernization in Britain was not as disruptive as in other countries because_______________?

   A. the British are smarter
   B. the rate of change was slower, so integration of new values was possible
   C. the British were ahead of other societies in their level of civilization
   D. the British had the Magna Carta which protected civil rights

6. In developing nations cities are growing along with rural areas because_______________?

   A. of lower death rates
   B. of high birth rates
   C. cultural values encourage large families
   D. all of the above

7. When interaction is guided by shared and patterned expectations of behavior the social system has acquired a(n) ?

   A. social process
   B. social structure
   C. social stability
   D. social value system

8. “The capacity of a nation to use its resources to affect the behavior of other nations” is a definition of________________?

   A. foreign policy
   B. diplomacy
   C. power in the context of international relations
   D. international law

9. The differences in behavior between men and women______________?

   A. are due strictly to biology
   B. are due strictly to culture
   C. are due both to biology and culture
   D. are the product of totalitarian governments?

10. Social movements are forms of collective behavior that have____________________?

    A. no specific ideology
    B. a sense of solidarity
    C. an insignificant number of persons involved
    D. no particular program of action