__________ focuses on the social-psychological aspects of collective behavior; it attempts to ...

__________ focuses on the social-psychological aspects of collective behavior; it attempts to explain how moods, attitudes, and behavior are communicated rapidly and why they are accepted by others.
 
  a. Psychoanalysis b. Convergence theory
 c. Emergent norm theory d. Contagion theory

Question 2

Sociologists Michael Omi and Howard Winant suggest that the U.S. government has shaped the politics of race through:
 
  a. affirmative action programs
 b. actions and policies that cause people to be treated differently because of their race, such as immigration legislation
 c. intervention in the internal political affairs of the nations of South Africa
 d. encouraging the release of political prisoners who have been detained primarily due to their ethnic background

Question 3

Most citizens of the United States are not actual capitalists.
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 4

Scholar __________ focused on crowd psychology and developed the contagion theory.
 
  a. Clark McPhail b. Gustave Le Bon
 c. Robert Park d. Herbert Blumer

Question 5

The theory of _____ states that actions of the government substantially define racial and ethnic relations in the United States.
 
  a. domestic marginalization b. internal colonialism
 c. the split labor market d. racial formation

Question 6

The United States is the only nation that has a purely capitalist economic system.
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 7

In the 1960s, African American students and sympathetic whites used sit-ins to call attention to racial injustice and demanded social change. When these types of protests escalate into violent confrontations, these groups become __________ crowds.
 
  a. conventional b. deviant
 c. acting d. aggressive