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401. A pastoralist society depends upon ?
- A. domesticated livestock
- B. agriculture
- C. Trade and business
- D. None of theseExplore Farming Tools
Explanation: Pastoralist societies are organised around the herding and use of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, goats or camels. Agriculture and trade may supplement their livelihood, but livestock is the defining basis.
Correct answer: domesticated livestock402. Sociological studies of colonialism suggest that____________?
- A. colonialism has largely disappeared
- B. colonialism was for the most part beneficial for poor uncivilized countries
- C. colonialism was inevitable and necessary for human civilization
- D. colonialism is perpetuated to this day by practices known as neo-colonialism
Explanation: Neo-colonialism refers to continuing economic, political, or cultural domination after formal colonial rule has ended. It explains why sociologists do not treat colonialism as simply a vanished historical system.
Correct answer: colonialism is perpetuated to this day by practices known as neo-colonialism403. Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?
- A. countermovement
- B. social amelioration
- C. counter modernization
- D. countenance
- E. post modernization
Explanation: A countermovement is an organised response that resists or attempts to reverse the goals of another movement or a process of change. The other options do not name this form of resistance.
Correct answer: countermovement404. Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?
- A. McDonaldization
- B. post-modernization
- C. the service industry
- D. the culture of commerce
- E. post-industrialization
Explanation: Ritzer used McDonaldization to describe the spread of fast-food principles into social institutions, especially efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. These principles organise production and consumption in a rationalised way.
Correct answer: McDonaldization405. _____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?
- A. Bureaucratization
- B. Decline
- C. Coalescence
- D. Incipience
- E. Arousal
Explanation: In the incipient stage, a movement is just emerging from a shared feeling of discontent and has not yet developed strong organisation. Coalescence comes later, when participants unite around clearer goals and collective action.
Correct answer: Incipience406. What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?
- A. Globalization
- B. Political Process
- C. Postmodernism
- D. Linear Evolutionary
- E. Counter-modernization
Explanation: The political-process approach examines how social movements interact over time with political opportunities, state structures, and wider economic conditions. It therefore connects movements to macro-level political and economic change.
Correct answer: Political Process407. ________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?
- A. Social movements
- B. Developments
- C. Conventions
- D. Hysterias
- E. Protests
Explanation: Social movements are sustained, organised collective efforts directed toward social change or the defence of existing conditions. Fads, crazes, and hysterias are usually shorter-lived and less organised, while protests are often individual events within a movement.
Correct answer: Social movements408. Which of the following describes a central change in contemporary life that has been identified by futurists ?
- A. The United States is being restructured from an agrarian to an industrial society
- B. Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy
- C. High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive
- D. all of the above
Explanation: Futurists identify globalization as a major contemporary shift, with economic activity increasingly organized across national borders rather than within a single national economy. The other choices describe either an earlier historical transition or a false claim about high-tech industries.
Correct answer: Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy409. Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?
- A. the resource mobilization approach
- B. the deprivation approaches
- C. the capitalist collapse approach
- D. none of the above
Explanation: The relative deprivation approach argues that revolution can follow a sudden gap between rising expectations and worsening conditions, known as a revolution of rising expectations or a sharp reversal. Resource mobilization instead emphasizes organization, leadership, and access to resources.
Correct answer: the deprivation approaches410. ________ is the process by which a society moves from traditional to industrial social and economic arrangements?
- A. Development
- B. Evolution
- C. Modernization
- D. Social change
Explanation: Modernization specifically describes the transition from traditional arrangements to modern industrial, urban and bureaucratic ones. Development is broader, while social change includes any significant transformation in society.
Correct answer: Modernization