True or False Quiz


1	Early evolutionary theorists generally agreed that society was inevitably progressing to a higher state.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Talcott Parsons's approach to social change explicitly rejects the evolutionary notion of continuing progress.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	As noted by critics, the functionalist approach places substantial emphasis on the use of coercion by the powerful to maintain the illusion of a stable, well-integrated society.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Both the relative-deprivation approach and the resource-mobilization perspective focus on strategic difficulties confronted by social movements.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	The emergence of cyberspace can be viewed as yet another step away from Ferdinand Tönnies's concept of the familiar, intimate Gemeinschaft to the comparatively impersonal Gesellschaft.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Until recent decades, social movements theory was based on the study of traditional movements generally led by the middle class.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Marginalized people are not involved in new social movements.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Whereas traditional views of social movements tended to emphasize resource mobilization on a broad global level, new social movements theory offers a local perspective on social and political activism.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	From a functionalist perspective there is the ever-present danger that a society's most powerful groups will use technological advances to invade the privacy of the less powerful and thereby maintain or intensify various forms of inequality and injustice.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Generally, 20 to 30 percent of normal accidents are attributed to human factors.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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