Question 1 of 15
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- The definition of culture includes all of the following EXCEPT:
- A. Techniques
- B. Material Objects
- C. Symbols and language (verbal and nonverbal)
- D. A persistent network of social relationships
Question 2 of 15
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- When exploring change, we look at the interrelationships between changes in ___________ and changes in ____________.
- A. Government; Culture
- B. Structure; Culture
- C. Culture; Global Development
- D. Structure; Modernization
Question 3 of 15
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- Because long-term changes involve increasing time frames, they are more likely to:
- A. involve larger numbers of people.
- B. end in revolution.
- C. be easy for individuals to perceive.
- D. be technological in nature.
Question 4 of 15
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- Trends are:
- A. Intentional social movements.
- B. Unintentional, larger-scale changes.
- C. Intentional AND constructed by elite forces.
- D. Unintentional outcomes of social movements.
Question 5 of 15
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- An example of a non-innovational change would be:
- A. New medical technology allows for less-invasive exploratory surgeries in cancer patients.
- B. New communication techniques are employed by manufacturing plants, thus improving productivity and delivery times.
- C. A new concept in hierarchical business accountability allows for greater complexity and networking within and among departments.
- D. Traditional herbal medicine is seeing a resurgence in acceptance because it helps solve problems.
Question 6 of 15
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- In _____________ models, change is viewed as cumulative, non-repetitive, developmental, and usually permanent.
- A. Dialectical
- B. Linear
- C. Cyclical
- D. Developmental
Question 7 of 15
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- According to our text, these models “assume that social life has inherent stresses or ‘contradictions’ that develop because every social development . . . carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.”
- A. Dialectical
- B. Linear
- C. Cyclical
- D. Revolutionary
Question 8 of 15
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Scientific theories are collections of the most recently obtained facts.A. True
B. False
Question 9 of 15
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Materialistic perspectives view ideas, knowledge, beliefs, values, ideologies as central to social change.A. True
B. False
Question 10 of 15
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If a bureaucracy is involved, this is likely a change that has been planned and approved by the elites.A. True
B. False
Question 11 of 15
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External causes of change include differences in how individuals learn and variations in how we act out social roles.A. True
B. False
Question 12 of 15
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Weber did not disagree with Marx. Rather, he believed that production technologies would only change if the right ideologies supported their development.A. True
B. False
Question 13 of 15
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- Interpretative theories include all of the following EXCEPT:
- A. Dahrendorf’s “imperatively coordinated association”
- B. Weber’s Verstehen
- C. Symbolic interactionism
- D. Social phenomenology
Question 14 of 15
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- While our authors believe that the Mass Society Theory has “some validity,” they also point out:
- A. It fails to capture our emerging postmodern culture.
- B. The current trend is toward rural living.
- C. That humans like to live in smaller groups.
- D. That functionalists favor the emergence of larger, modern societies.
Question 15 of 15
1.0 Points
- Functionalist theory understands social change as the maintenance of:
- A. a static equilibrium between the components of the social system.
- B. a dynamic conflict between the components of the social system.
- C. a dynamic equilibrium between the components of the social system.
- D. a static conflict between the components of the social system.
