Week 8 Quiz with all correct answers Sociology
1. Some scholars who disagree with the neo-Malthusian viewpoint suggest that the theory of offers a more accurate picture of future population growth.
demographic te
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Week 8 Quiz with all correct answers Sociology
1. Some scholars who disagree with the neo-Malthusian viewpoint suggest that the theory of offers a more accurate picture of future population growth.
demographic technology
Correct !
demographic transition
population technology
population transition
demographic population
2. A riot differs from a mob in that a riot
Correct!
typically has little focus or a specific target.
involves fewer people.
is rare in U.S. history.
is often expressed in a different language.
3. Most demographers refer to the dire predictions of which English economist when they examine the relationship between fertility and subsistence needs?
Emile Durkheim
Correct!
Thomas Robert Malthus
Karl Marx
Paul R. Ehrlich
4. Zero population growth is the point at which
all unplanned pregnancies are prevented.
the sex ratio is steady at 100.
the population reaches zero.
Correct!
no population increase occurs from year to year.
5. What is the name for the belief acknowledging that a disproportionate number of hazardous facilities (including industries such as waste disposal/treatment and chemical plants) are placed in low-income areas populated primarily by people of color?
Hazardous racism
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Environmental racism
Colorism
Chemical colorism
Chemical racism
Question 6
3 / 3 pts
Because social movements initially are not institutionalized and are outside the political mainstream, they offer an opportunity to have their voices heard.
Correct!
outsiders
insiders
government officials
professors
3 / 3 pts
According to , people who are satisfied with their present condition are less likely to seek social change.
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Relative deprivation theory
Relative mobilization theory
Resource deprivation theory
Question 8
3 / 3 pts
From the perspective of , social movements are formed and dissolved, mobilized and deactivated, based on rational decisions about the goals of the group, available resources, and the cost of mobilization and collective action.
Correct!
Resource mobilization theory
Resource deprivation theory
Resource relativity theory
Question 9
3 / 3 pts
The rate of technological advancement at the level of material culture today is mind-boggling. Many of us can never hope to understand technological advances in the areas of artificial intelligence, holography, virtual reality, biotechnology, cold fusion, and robotics.
The difference between this level of material culture and our understanding or our nonmaterial/ideological culture illustrates .
cultural relativity
culture shock
material lag
material relativity
Question 10
culture occurs in society, a period of cultural lag follows?
Thorstein Veblen
Correct!
William Ogburn
Talcott Parsons
Erving Goffman
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