New age movements are an example of which type of religious movement ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. New age movements are an example of which type of religious movement ?

   A. world-affirming
   B. world-rejecting
   C. world-enhancing
   D. world-accommodating

3. A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their age and includes response categories of age 20-30 age 30-40 age 40 50 and age 50+ violates which important rule for constructing closed-ended items for naires ?

   A. exhaustive
   B. tangible
   C. comprehensive
   D. relevant
   E. mutually exclusive

4. A researcher examines the literature written by Black novelists during the “Negro Renaissance” (1913-1935) to see if they reflect the political movements going on in the Black community in the United States at that time What type of research methodology is being used in this example ?

   A. secondary analysis
   B. interviews
   C. observation
   D. content analysis

5. In which type of city does religion become fragmented and there is greater openness to new religious faiths ?

   A. preindustrial city
   B. industrial city
   C. postindustrial city
   D. edge cities

6. The rise of new social movements indicates that______________?

   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

7. __________ movements advocate for progressive change using different methods than those that have previously failed and are often considered to be anti-government ?

   A. Reactionary
   B. Redundant
   C. Reformist
   D. Radical
   E. Revolutionary

8. 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

9. 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

10. What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ?

    A. recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state
    B. the creation of an independent nation state
    C. the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region
    D. acceptance of an ethnic groups that to use a separate minority language