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SOCIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Crowd

Answer:

a temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact.

Question 2: Urban Legends

Answer:

stories that teach a lesson and seem realistic but are untrue.

Question 3: Rumor

Answer:

an unverified piece of information

Question 4: collectivity

Answer:

is a gathering of people who have limited interaction with one another and do not share clearly defined, conventional norms or a sense of group unity.

Question 5: Social Movements

Answer:

A long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change.

Question 6: Resource-Mobilization Theory

Answer:

theory of social movements that states that event the most ill-treated group with the most just cause will not be able to bring about change without resources.

Question 7: Revisionary Movements

Answer:

social movements that try to improve or revise some part of society through social change.

Question 8: Resource Mobilization

Answer:

the organization and effective use of resources as essential to social movements.

Question 9: Propaganda

Answer:

an organized and deliberate attempt to shape public opinion.

Question 10: Public

Answer:

a groups of geographically scattered people who are concerned or engaged in a particular issue.

Question 11: Reactionary Movements

Answer:

social movement with a goal to reverse current social trends.

Question 12: Moral Panic

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occurs when people become fearful-often without reason-about behavior that appears to threaten society's core values.

Question 13: Mass Hysteria

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an unfounded anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a wide geographic area.

Question 14: Contagion Theory

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they hypnotic power of a crowd encourages people to give up their individuality to the stronger pull of the group.

Question 15: Revolutionary Movements

Answer:

type of social movement, the goal of which is a total and radical change of the existing social structure.

Question 16: Panic

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a spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat.

Question 17: Conservative movements

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Social movements that try to protect from change what they see as society's prevailing values.

Question 18: Mob

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an emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by specific destructive or violent goal.

Question 19: Value-added theory

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Theory that explains crowd behavior as a process that moves from step to step.

Question 20: Fashions

Answer:

enthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior.

Question 21: Relative deprivation theory

Answer:

theory that states that certain people have a lesser portion of social rewards compared to other people or groups.

Question 22: Fads

Answer:

an unconventional object, action, or idea that a large number of people are attached to for a very short period of time.

Question 23: Riot

Answer:

a collection of people who erupt into generalized destructive behavior, the result of which is social disorder.

Question 24: Emergent-norm Theory

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the people in a crowd are often faced with a situation in which traditional norms of behavior do not apply.

Question 25: Collective Behavior

Answer:

The relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations.