Chapter 21: Social Movements and Social Change

Several conditions must be in place for _______________________________ to occur, according to Neil Smelser.

collective behavior

Social movement is best defined by the following statement:

A purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal.

After the public killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in late May of 2020, hundreds of thousands of protestors came together using Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms to get their message of protest out. Which stage of Blumer and Tilly's social movement outline represents this?

Coalescence stage

_______________________ is not a widely contributing factor in social change.

Disease

Which of the following describes when social movements link their goals with goals of other social movements and merge into a single group:

Frame alignment process

Assembling perspective sees individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action. This perspective falls under which sociological perspective?

Interactionist

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is a _____________________ group. It is a non-profit organization which advocates for equal rights and marriage rights of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual citizens, and also most currently advocates for anti-racism.

Reform

Social change is best defined by the following statement:

The change in society created through social movements as well as external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations.

Neil Smelser's (1962) categorization of crowd behavior, called ____________________ theory, is based on a functionalist perspective.

Value-added

Survivors of an airplane crash on a deserted island off of the coast of Fiji are forced to learn new behaviors in order to adapt to the situation and each other. This is an example of which theory?

Emergent norm