Deck 14: Leading Social Movements

Question 1

Social movements include all of the following except being:

A) An uninstitutionalized collective
B) Cause-oriented
C) Motivated to exert influence
D) Democratically organized

Answer 1

Democratically organized

Question 2

A slogan for an expressivist movement might be:

A) "Change the world one person at a time."
B) "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
C) "No one gets out of this world alive, so make it count."
D) "Doing good by doing well."

Answer 2

"Change the world one person at a time."

Question 3

Reformist movements:

A) Seek to replace guiding ideologies
B) Seek to keep the status quo
C) Seek to fix or improve the system
D) Seek to change individuals

Answer 3

Seek to fix or improve the system

Question 4

Resistance movements:

A) Seek to replace guiding ideologies
B) Seek to keep the status quo
C) Seek to fix or improve the system
D) Seek to change individuals

Question 5

"Problems" for movement leaders include all of the following except:

A) The need to inspire members versus the need to speak truthfully.
B) The need for organizational efficiency versus the need for personal gratification for volunteers.
C) The need to motivate volunteers who can't be paid or fired
D) All of the above

Question 6

Which strategy would likely work best with a university president?

A) Moderate
B) Militant
C) Intermediate

Question 7

Intermediate strategies:

A) Were employed effectively by Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Are the most likely to be consistently effective
C) Are the "safer game"
D) All of the above

Question 8

Proponents of expressivism:

A) Believe, first of all, in absolute freedom of speech
B) Consider theirs a path of appropriate moderation
C) Target the values that give rise to society's institutions
D) All of the above

Question 9

The problem with California's Proposition 2, according to Fettisenko, is that:

A) It only covers farm animals and not pets
B) It rejects speciesism
C) It does not eliminate the larger problem of animal products as food
D) All of the above

Question 10

Which is a part of "RPS"?

A) Rhetoric
B) Requirements
C) Persuasion
D) Society

Question 11

The student protests in Tianamen Square accomplished most, but not all, of the students' goals.

Question 12

NOW is an example of an institutionalized social movement.

Question 13

Expressionist movements seek to improve the system through passage of particular laws.

Question 14

Resistance movements seek to create a return to an older and supposedly better way of life.

Question 15

Movement confrontation often violates codes of conduct and taboos.

Question 16

Cultural political movement tactics often takes place behind-the-scenes.

Question 17

Movement activity is generally considered "good" by the American media.

Question 18

Often movements wishing media attention must temper their messages to fit with the dominant culture they want to critique.

Question 19

R-P-S stands for "rhetoric-persuasion-strategy."

Question 20

Leaders of social movements must always resist factionalization.

Question 21

A moderate strategy for a social movement works best with power-vulnerables

Question 22

Militant strategies of social movements can end up appearing as rationalizations.

Question 23

Intermediate strategies of social movements can end up appearing as rationalizations.

Question 24

"Speciesism" is the idea that humans are the superior species.

Question 25

Hitler's Nazi movement was closed minded.

Question 26

Compare and contrast the five types of social movements. If you wanted to start a movement on campus to remove sweatshop-produced clothing from the campus store, which type of movement would you use and why?

Question 27

Discuss the positive and negative issues a social movement confronts when dealing with the media. How can the media help? How can it hurt?

Question 28

What is the RPS approach and what does it teach us about social movements?

Question 29

What are the differences between moderate, militant and intermediate social movement strategies? In what situations does each work best?

Question 30

Review in detail the case study concerning California's Proposition 2. What was at stake? What positive conclusion can be drawn about the outcome? What negative conclusions?