Deck 16: Changing Society Through Social Movements

Question 1

A collective group of people interested in creating social change and challenging authority and power is known as ______.

A) social equality
B) a social movement
C) social behaviorism
D) a social structure

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In 2011, an individual joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, marching through the city with thousands of others and demanding change. What was this person doing?

A) breaking the law
B) participating in a protest
C) engaging in a performance
D) adhering to dominant social mores

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Social movements will likely target people in ______ in order to make the changes they seek.

A) minority groups
B) power positions
C) religious organizations
D) wealthier social classes

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Movements that purposefully break laws or customs in their protest against injustice are engaging in ______.

A) civil disobedience
B) civil discourse
C) social dissonance
D) unconstitutional behavior

Question 5

How does civil disobedience help a social movement?

A) It brings in donations from other citizens.
B) It breaks social customs or laws to make a point.
C) It models behaviors designed to bring peace.
D) It attacks social institutions

Question 6

People who benefit directly from a movement for social change are ______ constituents.

A) conscious
B) direct
C) beneficiary
D) primary

Question 7

Individuals who care about a cause, but do not benefit directly from the changes are ______ constituents.

A) beneficiary
B) conscience
C) participatory
D) indirect

Question 8

A straight woman joins a social justice movement advocating for the civil rights of individuals within the LGBTQ community. In order to avoid issues of power and inequality, ______ voices must be at the center of the movement.

A) empathetic
B) supportive
C) authoritative
D) marginalized

Question 9

A group of older adults are unable to afford the increase in rent at their apartment building. How would beneficiary constituents and conscience constituents interact in a social movement organized to help?

A) The older adults are the beneficiary constituents that receive money from conscience constituents.
B) Beneficiary constituents act to help older adults find the funding to keep their homes while conscience constituents act to take control of the building.
C) Conscience constituents help try to solve the problem the beneficiary constituents are experiencing.
D) The older adults are conscience constituents whose plight draws in beneficiary constituents to create a social movement.

Question 10

Two things can limit participation in a social movement: ability and ______.

A) able-bodied capacity
B) socioeconomic status
C) power-holders
D) religious beliefs

Question 11

Contemporary local and global social movements have relied heavily on ______ to communicate their message to a wide variety of people.

A) economic support
B) television and radio
C) social media
D) direct mail campaigns

Question 12

A woman living in a rural neighborhood where fracking is occurring wants to bring attention to this problem. She begins calling neighbors and trying to get them to help. Which stage of organizing a social movement does this describe?

A) mobilization
B) coordination
C) coalescence
D) interaction

Question 13

A group of teaching assistants are angry about the pay they receive. As a result, they discuss how they can find other teaching assistants who feel the same and form a social movement. This process is known as ______ a social movement.

A) organizing
B) coordinating
C) leading
D) resourcing

Question 14

People who participate in community-based organizing are mainly interested in ______.

A) using the community to access political, social, and economic power
B) applying their community-based organization efforts to global communities
C) addressing an issue that impacts their own communities
D) focusing on global inequality

Question 15

Social movements are often thought of as ______, but there are many other types of social movements, including organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan.

A) violent
B) alternative
C) progressive
D) empathetic

Question 16

A movement that seeks little societal change and does not require individuals to change their personal beliefs is a(n) ______ movement.

A) redemptive
B) alternative
C) reformative
D) revolutionary

Question 17

Brad is a member of a social movement that advocates for no-kill animal shelters. This is an example of a(n) ______ social movement.

A) redemptive
B) alternative
C) reformative
D) revolutionary

Question 18

In the late 19th century, the Women's Christian Temperance Union worked to convince individuals to abstain from alcohol consumption. Which type of social movement was this?

A) reformative
B) alternative
C) revolutionary
D) redemptive

Question 19

A group of environmentalists stages a protest at a dump site, admonishing people for using plastic bottles and trying to convince them not to. Which type of movement are they engaging in?

A) alternative
B) redemptive
C) reformative
D) revolutionary

Question 20

A young woman participates in the Women's March in Washington D. C. She is participating in a(n) ______ movement.

A) reformative
B) redemptive
C) revolutionary
D) alternative

Question 21

Black Lives Matter is an example of a(n) ______ social movement.

A) redemptive
B) alternative
C) reformative
D) revolutionary

Question 22

What do sociological theories help us understand about social movements?

A) how social institutions should be structured
B) the form, actions, and the level of success social movements have
C) the impact of past social movements on the modern day
D) how to determine which social movement is most appropriate

Question 23

According to ______ theorists, social movements emerge when there is an unequal distribution of goods and services.

A) conflict
B) symbolic interactionist
C) functionalist
D) social identity

Question 24

Which theory notes that a social movement's success depends on the movement's connections, funding, and participants?

A) transnational mobilization theory
B) resource mobilization theory
C) functional theory
D) collective organization theory

Question 25

Which theory is interested in looking at how people in social movements collectively create meaning and shared culture?

A) functionalist theory
B) conflict theory
C) symbolic interactionist
D) critical theory

Question 26

An approach to understanding social movements is the ______ approach, which focuses on how movements highlight certain facts and themes while making others invisible to promote their cause.

A) functionalist
B) symbolic
C) linguistic
D) framing

Question 27

______ social movements mobilize around a shared identity.

A) Critical
B) Functionalist
C) Identity-based
D) Spatial justice

Question 28

Social movements are more likely to develop in which political climate?

A) a socialist-oriented society
B) a nationalist oriented society
C) a repressive society where there is a greater desire for social change
D) a society where people have the freedom to organize and mobilize

Question 29

What is the most valuable resource in any social movement?

A) social media access
B) transportation access
C) money
D) constituents

Question 30

What makes organizing for a social movement more difficult?

A) an abundance of resources
B) cross-cultural issues
C) support from political figures
D) intersectionality

Question 31

A key component for a successful social movement, such as the civil rights movement, is ______.

A) a powerful leader
B) strategic research and planning
C) physical proximity
D) the complete agreement about the goals

Question 32

The first step of any social movement is to identify an issue that needs to be addressed. Alongside this step, a movement must ______.

A) make an argument for why change should occur
B) use symbols and rhetoric to recruit others to join the movement
C) gather conscious constituents and financial supporters
D) exclude people who are unwilling to change their behaviors to support the cause

Question 33

A person who is involved in a ______ is working to end gender inequality and gender oppression.

A) gendered institution
B) matriarchal organization
C) feminist organization
D) counter-cultural organization

Question 34

A feminist who focuses on intersectionality and inclusiveness belongs to which feminist wave?

A) first
B) third
C) second
D) fourth

Question 35

In China, western social media is prohibited and public protests are banned. This is an example of ______.

A) repression
B) inequality
C) reaction
D) co-optation

Question 36

The text describes two ways that may cause social movements to fail: repression and ______, which occurs when the leadership of the movement begins to identify with the targets of social change and starts to work more for them than for the original movement goals.

A) adoption
B) confiscation
C) co-optation
D) appropriation

Question 37

When thousands of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong to show their disapproval of an extradition bill, China mobilized its troops and prepared to step in and stop the protests by a show of force. This represents how governments may use power to control or destroy a movement, called ______.

A) subjugation
B) repression
C) co-optation
D) appropriation

Question 38

The marriage equality movement began as an offshoot of ______.

A) the Defense of Marriage Act
B) Roe v. Wade
C) the Stonewall riots
D) the New York City Pride March

Question 39

What was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage following a court challenge?

A) Alaska
B) Maine
C) Colorado
D) Massachusetts

Question 40

What state passed a marriage equality law in 2009, only to have it voted down in the 2009 election, then passed in the 2012 election?

A) California
B) Maine
C) Massachusetts
D) Illinois

Question 41

How did the movement to achieve marriage equality utilize media sources?

A) by ensuring that protests were always in the news
B) by arguing their plight on new stations
C) by buying advertising time during popular shows
D) by gaining acting roles on television shows portraying LGBT characters

Question 42

How did the court systems become involved in the marriage equality movement?

A) Courts prosecuted the cases of activists who were too vocal.
B) Courts ruled about the issue of activist parades.
C) Courts heard lawsuits by activists arguing the right to same-sex marriage.
D) Courts prosecuted gay individuals for public lewdness.

Question 43

In 2014, the Supreme Court determined that the ______ Amendment required all states to issue marriage licenses to all couples, whether they were male and female or same sex.

A) First
B) Fourth
C) Fourteenth
D) Nineteenth

Question 44

How did backlash occur after the courts began to rule that same-sex marriages were legal?

A) Some officials who would normally sign marriage licenses refused to.
B) The couples would gain a ceremony but no legal protection.
C) The laws were easily reversed in all states.
D) The activists involved in gaining legal same-sex marriage were arrested.

Question 45

What did LGBT groups experience after gaining more political and legal equality?

A) They saw unemployment increase.
B) They saw social acceptance decrease.
C) They saw an increase in violent hate crimes.
D) They saw an increase in housing discrimination.

Question 46

In most states, employers have the legal right to fire employees for being ______.

A) pregnant
B) gay
C) old
D) female

Question 47

How would Francis Fox Piven's concept of interdependent power impact policies on mortgage interest rates?

A) Homebuyers rely on mortgage lenders for money, which gives them the power to determine rates.
B) Homebuyers depend on good credit to gain a loan approval at a good interest rate.
C) Homebuyers can unify and exercise joint power to influence interest rates.
D) Homebuyers with more money have more pull to get lower interest rates.

Question 48

A man gets sick and visits his doctor, who prescribes medication. The medicine is expensive and while waiting in line, he talks to others who are complaining about the high prices of medications. Based on interdependent power, how should these people proceed?

A) Find others and unite to bring attention to the public to influence the pharmaceutical company.
B) Complain to their doctors that the prices are too high and ask for generic varieties.
C) Refuse to purchase these medications and find something over the counter.
D) Contact their health insurance companies and request a change in drug coverage.

Question 49

A sociologist wants to research the causes of low test scores in a given school system. How would this person do this using participatory action research?

A) Ask for volunteer families in the school system to be subjects in the study.
B) Engage in a joint study with the people who are being studied.
C) Create test situations to see which is most influential.
D) Construct an experiment that requires student participation.

Question 50

A sociological researcher wants to study substance use in an inner-city neighborhood. Since the researcher is an outsider, what should the researcher do to conduct participatory action research?

A) Promise that all information shared will be confidential.
B) Include counselors to help with the substance issues.
C) Work with neighbors to get their views on the subject.
D) Offer participants money for their cooperation.

Question 51

The idea that people are experts in their own lives and can therefore take part in the research process is a tenet of ______ research.

A) independent power
B) collective solidarity
C) community based
D) participatory action

Question 52

What is collective solidarity in a social movement?

A) Collective solidarity is when members of a movement gain strength from the support of leaders.
B) Collective solidarity occurs when a movement is successful.
C) Collective solidarity occurs when social movements become stalled.
D) As members of a social movement work together, they bond and form collective solidarity.

Question 53

Deb participates in marches and protests that are focused on animal rights whenever she can. The protests make her feel like she is part of a large family with the other protesters. This demonstrates ______.

A) collective solidarity
B) beneficiary constituency
C) responsible social action
D) participatory action research

Question 54

When Marcella decided to participate in the Women's March because she was concerned about women's rights, her husband joined her because he had the same concerns, even though they might not directly impact him. Marcell's husband was a(n) ______.

A) objector
B) ally
C) beneficiary
D) enabler

Question 55

To be effective, a social movement must challenge cultural beliefs and practices.

Question 56

Civil disobedience is a form of protest that breaks social customs or laws intentionally.

Question 57

When women from technology companies protest to bring attention to the need for equal pay for equal work, these women are most likely beneficiary constituents

Question 58

Conscience constituents act in a social movement for the benefit of others.

Question 59

Alternative social movements advocate for people to change what they believe about an issue.

Question 60

Reformative social movements address past wrongdoings by individuals

Question 61

Resource mobilization theory looks at what is necessary to begin and sustain a social movement, including money and people.

Question 62

Political connections are resources to a social movement.

Question 63

Social movements that do not successfully address the six steps of social movement success would still be able to reach their goals.

Question 64

The National Organization for Women was established during the second wave of feminism, when women were expected to quit their jobs and go back to being full time housewives after WWII ended.

Question 65

Public approval for same-sex marriage was decreasing until the Supreme Court legalized it.

Question 66

When gay and lesbian people gain equality through policies, social acceptance increases.

Question 67

A social movement must have large amounts of money behind it to be successful.

Question 68

Mass action that results in policy change demonstrates the utility of interdependent power.

Question 69

Taking part in a social movement rarely results in feeling empowered.

Question 70

What are the components of a social movement?

Question 71

List and describe the four different types of social movements.

Question 72

List and describe the six steps that tend to create social movement success.

Question 73

How would participatory action research help when potential participants for a research study are not trusting?

Question 74

A neighborhood's drinking water has been tainted. The residents of this neighborhood are poor and have had little success getting anyone in an official capacity to help them. Explain the process of mobilizing and apply it to this social problem.

Question 75

Describe one type of social movement and provide a real-life example.

Question 76

Compare and contrast conflict theory and symbolic interactionist theory in terms of how they believe social movements begin.

Question 77

Briefly describe the three waves of feminism, including when they took place and their primary goals.

Question 78

A poor neighborhood has only two choices of mortgage lending companies, and both charge high interest rates. Explain how the concept of interdependent power could be used in this situation.