Movements that seek to reverse legislation and judicial acts that make abortion legal or easy to obtain or oppose teaching of evolution and seek to have the schools teach creationism are examples of ________.
a. resistance movements
b. insurgency movements
c. reform movements
d. revolutionary movements
Question 2A ________ is a collective attempt to promote or resist change that arises when people are sufficiently discontented that they will work for a better system.
a. social movement
b. social construction
c. civil rights movement
d. social revolution
Question 3The key to the success of a social movement is ________.
a. organizational skills
b. ideology
c. money
d. persistence
Question 4The set of ideals that explains reality, provides guidelines for behavior, and expresses the interest of a group is referred to as a/an ________.
a. ideology
b. value set
c. belief system
d. culture
Question 5Social movements are inherently ________ because they seek to affect public policy.
a. political
b. reformist
c. revolutionary
d. conservative
Question 6The paradox of sociologythe power of society over its members versus the power of social actors to change societyhas the following implication(s):
a. Society is not a static entity; it is created, sustained, and changed by people.
b. The social forms that people create often take on a sacred quality that constrains behavior in socially prescribed ways.
c. Since social structures are created and sustained by people, they are imperfect.
d. All of the above
Question 7The social forms that people create often take on a sacred quality that constrains behavior in ________ ways.
a. unpredictable
b. predetermined
c. socially prescribed
d. inflexible
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