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21.1 Review Questions

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Which of the following organizations is not an example of a social movement?
National Football League
Tea Party
Greenpeace
NAACP
Sociologists using conflict perspective might study what?
What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement
How social movements develop
What social purposes a movement serves
What individuals hope to gain from taking part in a social movement
Which of the following is an example of collective behavior?
A group of people interested in hearing an author speak
A soldier questioning orders
A class going on a field trip
Going shopping with a friend
The protesters at the Egypt uprising rally were:
an acting crowd
a casual crowd
a conventional crowd
a mass
According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are:
able to develop their own definition of the situation
irrational and impulsive
often misinterpreted and misdirected
prone to criminal behavior
A boy throwing rocks during a demonstration might be an example of ___________.
precipitating factors
structural conduciveness
structural strain
mobilization for action
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The content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax

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