Deck 7: Law and Social Change

Question 1

Which of the following is not a mechanism for social change?

A) conflict
B) CRT
C) ideology
D) technology

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A social reformer whose philosophies lead the British Parliament to react to social needs:

A) Bentham
B) Savigny
C) Marx
D) Holmes

Answer 2

A

Question 3

He believed that only fully developed popular customs could form the basis of legal change:

A) Bentham
B) Marx
C) Savigny
D) Gureyev

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is not a way that technology has influenced law?

A) new legal techniques
B) alternate computer systems
C) changes in social and legal climates
D) creates new problems for law to address

Question 5

In the United States, cybercrime causes over __________ in damages to business every year.

A) $570 million
B) $8 million
C) $912 million
D) $14 billion

Question 6

Which type of crime does the FBI rank as third priority behind terrorism and espionage?

A) cybercrime
B) identity theft
C) illegal dumping
D) fraud

Question 7

Space law was initially modeled on what type of law?

A) tribal law
B) maritime law
C) military law
D) administrative law

Question 8

He believed law was a tool of the proletariat:

A) Engels
B) Lenin
C) Marx
D) all of the above

Question 9

After World War II, most Eastern-bloc countries were transformed from a bourgeois society to a _____________.

A) communist society
B) capitalist society
C) socialist society
D) none of the above

Question 10

Which of the following is not an indirect aspect of law in social change?

A) prohibition
B) influencing change in social institutions
C) mandatory school attendance
D) none of these

Question 11

The architectural construction of new forms of social order and social interaction:

A) disruption
B) planning
C) procedural opportunities
D) redefining normative order

Question 12

The most distinct and obvious form of disruption:

A) protest
B) planning
C) negative social change
D) revolution

Question 13

According to Evan, which of the following is not a condition that suggests law will successfully produce social change?

A) Enforcement of the law should be reasonable.
B) Law must come from an authoritative source.
C) Those enforcing the law must be committed to change.
D) Instrumentation of the law should only include positive sanctions.

Question 14

Which of the following is a condition for the efficacy of law as a mechanism of social change?

A) swift law enforcement
B) laws are free of ambiguity
C) severe negative sanctions
D) none of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is a means for initiating change in society?

A) boycott
B) strike
C) sit-in
D) all of the above

Question 16

The probability that specific commands from a given source would be obeyed by given groups of persons:

A) imperative coordination
B) command obedience
C) voluntary submission
D) coup d'etat

Question 17

Which of the following is not one of Weber's three types of legitimate authority?

A) rational-legal
B) command
C) traditional
D) charismatic

Question 18

Bases its claim to legitimacy on devotion to the specific and unusual character of an individual:

A) traditional authority
B) leader-initiated authority
C) charismatic authority
D) rational authority

Question 19

Bases its claim to legitimacy on a belief in the legality of normative rules:

A) realistic authority
B) traditional authority
C) rational-legal authority
D) status-based authority

Question 20

Bases its claims to legitimacy on an established belief in the sanctity of tradition:

A) ritualistic authority
B) traditional authority
C) charismatic authority
D) rational authority

Question 21

This is defined as discrepancies between action and cognition:

A) legitimate authority
B) social harmonics
C) cognitive dissonance
D) traditional authority

Question 22

He contended that the essence of obedience is that individuals come to see themselves as instruments for carrying out someone else's wishes:

A) Weber
B) Marx
C) Bentham
D) Milgram

Question 23

Which of the following is not included in John Stuart Mill's notion of law?

A) to achieve common purposes
B) to protect individuals acting in concert
C) to achieve objects of importance to society
D) to punish offenders fairly

Question 24

He said, "Law guarantees by no means only economic interest."

A) Weber
B) Marx
C) Milgram
D) Mill

Question 25

Since 1950, __________ percent of the Catholic clergy have been accused of sexually abusing minors.

A) 4%
B) 11%
C) 18%
D) 24%

Question 26

Which of the following is not a question raised with the link between morality and law?

A) What happens when moral opinion is divided?
B) How should society deal with a religious majority?
C) How do we distinguish between moral law that we should enforce and leave alone?
D) all of the above

Question 27

All of the following are social barriers to change except _____________.

A) vested Interest
B) organized opposition
C) habit
D) all of the above

Question 28

Mobilized widespread individual resistance to change:

A) grassroots
B) ideological resistance
C) motivation
D) organized opposition

Question 29

Which of the following is not a psychological barrier to change?

A) ignorance
B) motivation
C) mental instability
D) selective perception

Question 30

Which of the following barriers to change best illustrates an employer's unwillingness to hire non-white workers based on stereotype?

A) ethnocentrism
B) habit
C) selective perception
D) ignorance

Question 31

Which of the following is not a cultural barrier to change?

A) superstition
B) cost
C) fatalism
D) incompatibility

Question 32

Which of the following barriers to change best describe the Israeli marriage-age law?

A) ethnocentrism
B) superstition
C) ignorance
D) incompatibility

Question 33

Which of the following is not an economic factor in resistance to change?

A) methods of calculating costs and benefits
B) the cost of law
C) limitation of resources
D) status of those affected by law

Question 34

Of the four sources of resistance to change, economic factors may be the most _____________.

A) universal
B) decisive
C) divisive
D) immoral

Question 35

Mechanisms for social change are all interrelated.

Question 36

The relationship between law and social change can best be described as reciprocal.

Question 37

Social, technological, legal, and economic systems change incrementally.

Question 38

In present-day societies, the role of law in social change is only of theoretical interest.

Question 39

Social change through litigation is a distinct American phenomenon.

Question 40

Rebellion is the most drastic means of initiating social change.

Question 41

Acceptance of legitimate authority can minimize the possibility of cognitive dissonance.

Question 42

The Milgram experiments proved that individuals would not obey orders if they thought it would cause harm to another.

Question 43

Morality and values affect the efficacy of the law in social change.

Question 44

Fatalism is a feeling of a lack of mastery over nature.

Question 45

In your opinion, does law create social change, or does social change affect law? Use at least three (3) specific examples to illustrate your answer.

Question 46

Analyze the relationship between law and technology. Include specific examples of how law has affected technology, or vice versa.

Question 47

Describe the various means by which change can be initiated in society. Use examples to illustrate each.

Question 48

Compare and contrast Weber's three types of legitimate authority and explain how legitimate authority affects society.

Question 49

How has Max Weber influenced our understanding of law and social change? Include discussions of legitimate authority and limitations of the law.

Question 50

Identify and describe the various factors that influence resistance to change. Include at least 2 types of each factor and use examples for each.