Chapter 15: Collective Social Action
Key Terms


This section is designed to test your knowledge of key terms associated with collective social action.


1.  

Cooperative attempts to achieve a social goal, such as the Tiananmen Square uprising in China, are known as ________.

mob
riot
collective social action
rumor


2.  

_________ are the preexisting conditions, such as rumors, that make collective behavior likely.

structural strain
structural conduciveness
generalized beliefs
precipitating factors


3.  

A crowd at a football game may turn into a riot if _________ breaks down.

self control
communication
precipitating factors
social control


4.  

A ________ crowd provides its members with a sense of unity.

conventional
solaridaristic
expressive
acting


5.  

________ are often set off by a single incident, and they usually reflect underlying strains on the social structure.

mob
panic
riot
rumor


6.  

_________ theory of social behavior argues that crowd unity results from the like-mindedness of its members and that this like-mindedness exists before people join the crowd.

convergence
emergent norm
contagion
revolutionary


7.  

The Women's Movement was a _______ movement because its goal was to change society in a limited way.

revolutionary
reform
expressive
resistance


8.  

The pro-life movement is a ________ movement because it is developed to counter the pro-choice movement.

expressive
revolutionary
reform
resistance


9.  

The _________ theory of social movements states that money, members leaders, offices, and ties with influential groups and individuals are necessary to launch a social movement.

relative deprivation
emergent norm
resource mobilization
contagion


10.  

The popular stage of a social movement requires a _______ leader who articulates the idea of a better future through social action.

rabble-rouser
tactician
administrator
visionary


11.  

According to the _______ of social movements, industrialization led to an increase in alienation and anomie and resulted in the democracy movement in Czechoslovakia.

resource mobilization
mass society
relative deprivation
contagion


12.  

The court case of _________ resulted in the banning of racial segregation in schools.

Crow v. Board of Education
Bradwell v. Illinois
Brown V. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade


13.  

The ________ faction of the environmental movement argues that the current environmental movement is incapable of solving the world's environmental problems because it is too closely linked with the status quo.

mainstream ecology
populist ecology
radical ecology
reform ecology


14.  

________ wrote the book Silent Spring and warned of the use of chemicals in agriculture.

Rachel Carson
Margaret Sanger
Bobby Seal
Margaret Mead


15.  

Some sociologists argue that we need to place more emphasis on ________, or "the study of human freedom and of the social obstacles that must be overcome in order to insure this freedom".

environmental sociology
eco-gender sociology
humanist sociology
multidisciplinary sociology


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