Social Movements and Social Change

Question 1

Acting Crowds:

Answer 1

Crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal.

Question 2

Alternative Movements:

Answer 2

Social movements that limit themselves to self-improvement changes in individuals.

Question 3

Assembling Perspective:

Answer 3

A theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action.

Question 4

Casual Crowds:

Answer 4

People who share close proximity without really interacting.

Question 5

Collective Behavior:

Answer 5

A noninstitutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage.

Question 6

Conventional Crowds:

Answer 6

People who come together for a regularly scheduled event.

Question 7

Crowd:

Answer 7

A fairly large number of people who share close proximity.

Question 8

Crowdsourcing:

Answer 8

The process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people.

Question 9

Diagnostic Framing:

Answer 9

A social problem that is stated in a clear, easily understood manner.

Question 10

Emergent Norm Theory:

Answer 10

A perspective that emphasizes the importance of social norms in crowd behavior.

Question 11

Expressive Crowds:

Answer 11

Crowds who share opportunities to express emotions.

Question 12

Flash Mob:

Answer 12

A large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time.

Question 13

Frame Alignment Process:

Answer 13

Using bridging, amplification, extension, and transformation as an ongoing and intentional means of recruiting participants to a movement.

Question 14

Mass:

Answer 14

A relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity.

Question 15

Modernization:

Answer 15

The process that increases the amount of specialization and differentiation of structure in societies.

Question 16

Motivational Framing:

Answer 16

A call to action.

Question 17

New Social Movement Theory:

Answer 17

A theory that attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to understand using traditional social movement theories.

Question 18

Nongovernmental Organizations:

Answer 18

Work globally for numerous humanitarian and environmental causes.

Question 19

Prognostic Framing:

Answer 19

Social movements that state a clear solution and a means of implementation.

Question 20

Public:

Answer 20

An unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas.

Question 21

Redemptive Movements:

Answer 21

Movements that work to promote inner change or spiritual growth in individuals.

Question 22

Reform Movements:

Answer 22

Movements that seek to change something specific about the social structure.

Question 23

Resistance Movements:

Answer 23

Those who seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure.

Question 24

Resource Mobilization Theory:

Answer 24

A theory that explains social movements’ success in terms of their ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals.

Question 25

Revolutionary Movements:

Answer 25

Movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society.

Question 26

Social Change:

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Social Movement:

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Social Movement Industry:

Answer 28

The collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals.

Question 29

Social Movement Organization:

Answer 29

A single social movement group.

Question 30

Social Movement Sector:

Answer 30

The multiple social movement industries in a society, even if they have widely varying constituents and goals.

Question 31

Value-Added Theory:

Answer 31

A functionalist perspective theory that posits that several preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur.