Social movement / Culture

Question 1

Social movements:

___ aim to change some aspect of society, while ___ resist change

Answer 1

Activist movements
(think ACTIVATE Change)
Regressive/Reactionary movements

Question 2

another name for a regressive movement

Answer 2

Reactionary

Question 3

scepticism about groups there were involved in social movement.

States that people only join movements out of pyschological need to join an involvement

Answer 3

mass society theory

Think( you want to be part of the MASSes so you join an involvement)

Question 4

Theory that states people join a social movements in response to opression

Answer 4

Relative Deprivation Theory

think people Relatives who are DEPRIVEd will RISE!!

Question 5

what are 3 things needed for a social movement to form

Answer 5

1 relative deprivation

2) feeling of deserving better
3) conventional means are useless

Question 6

Looks at social movement from different angle

focuses on the factors that help/ hinder a social movement like access to resources

Answer 6

Resource Mobilization Theory

Think( focuses on RESOURCES and movement (MOBILIZATION of the camera to different angles )

Question 7

what are the 4 stages of a social movement

Answer 7

1) shared idea
2) Incipient stage
3) group formation
4) success or failure

(thinks CIGS with an “S” for SOCIAL MOVEMENT)

Question 8

incipient stage of social movement

Answer 8

public takes notice of the situation

Question 9

what is the difference between society and culture?

Answer 9

Culture= ideas, values and rules that guide the way people live (consistently adapting and changing)

Society= the structure that provides organization for people

Question 10

type of culture that refers to experiences and attitudes in the highest class segments of society

Answer 10

High Culture

Question 11

Type of culture that refers to values and behaviors that are in line with societal norms

Answer 11

Normative culture

Question 12

Type of culture that refers to patterns of experiences and attitudes that exhist within mainstream normative society (e.g going to a baseball game, attending a parade)

Answer 12

popular culture

Question 13

what is the difference between subcultures and microcultures

Answer 13

Subcultures are large enough to support people throughout their life(example: ethnic minority groups, elite upper class)

Microcultures- only effect people for limited period og there life (example: girlscouts)

Question 14

population falls between micro and macro level

sub culture is an example of this

Answer 14

Meso-Level

Question 15

type of subculture that strongly disagrees with the main ideas/ values of society

Answer 15

counterculture

Question 16

___ is the fact taht culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, resulting in social problems

Answer 16

Cultural lag

Question 17

what are the 2 cultural trends that seem to contribute to cultural lag

Answer 17

1) material culture changes rapidly

2) non material culture tends to resist change

Question 18

the spread of an invention or discovery or ideas from one place to another

Answer 18

Diffusion

Question 19

cultural fusion of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture

Answer 19

Cultural assimilation

Question 20

dissemination of information and how information is transmitted within a culture

Answer 20

mass media

Question 21

is entertainment, agent of socialization, enforcer of social norms

Answer 21

functionalist

Question 22

through this societal prospective mass media is looked at on the micro-level. to see how it shapes our day to day life

Answer 22

interactionist perspective

Question 23

____ addresses how culture is learned, how culture is passed down from generation to generation

Answer 23

cultural transmission