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Social Movements for Change MCQ

Under the classical view, aiding the few through philanthropy ________.

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Correct Answer: Increases costs for consumers

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The New Right movement, which advocates for society's return to traditional values and gender roles, is an example of a(n) ______ social movement.

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Correct Answer: Reformative

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Social media hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo are important tools used by social movements primarily for ______.

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Correct Answer: Mobilizing

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What did Freedom Summer student volunteers and student activists from Stoneman Douglas High School have in common which enabled their social movement participation?

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Correct Answer: Relatively high socioeconomic status

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The appropriate role for a social movement's conscience constituents is to ______.

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Correct Answer: Provide moral commitment to the movement's cause

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How did activists frame the murder of Trayvon Martin by "neighborhood watchman" George Zimmerman?

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Correct Answer: They represented the victim holding innocent objects to symbolize black youths' innocence.

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After identifying an issue and making a case for its importance, the next task of a social movement is to ______.

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Correct Answer: Organize a group

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A redemptive social movement asks individuals to ______.

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Correct Answer: Make a significant change in behavior

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What is an example of civil disobedience?

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Correct Answer: Entering a building from which you are restricted

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What is a valid criticism of the women's movement of the 1960s?

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Correct Answer: The movement focused on the issues of White, heterosexual, middle-class women.

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What is the best example of an alternative social movement?

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Correct Answer: DREAMers movement

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To be considered successful, social movements must ______.

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Correct Answer: Target the institution/person with power to enact change

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Social movements develop out of systemic inequalities, according to ______.

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Correct Answer: Conflict theorists

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What marks the most tangible success of the marriage equality movement?

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Correct Answer: Obergefell v. Hodges decision

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During events such as the March on Selma and Freedom Summer of the 1960s civil rights movements, participants strengthened their ties to one another and became empowered through ______.

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Correct Answer: Collective solidarity

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An important indicator that a group of people have organized into a social movement occurs when ______.

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Correct Answer: The group has a shared goal and sustained challenges

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Brought women together as women to fight for rights and equality is called ____- movement.

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Correct Answer: Women

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Coming together of a large number of people in a continuing and organized effort to bring about social change is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Social movement

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Aim to achieve a radical reorganization of society is called _____ SOcial Movement.

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Correct Answer: Revolutionary

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Looks to the resources needed to mobilize and sustain a social movement. The presence of resources, such as followers and money, predicts whether or not a movement will be successful is called Resource Mobilization Theory.

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Correct Answer: True

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Takes place when people and/or institutions with power use that power to control or destroy a movement is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Repression

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Work for specific change across society are called Reformative Social Movements.

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Correct Answer: True

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Seek radical changes in individual behavior are called ____ Social movements.

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Correct Answer: Redemptive

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An individual or group act of challenging, resisting, or making demands toward social change is called _____

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Correct Answer: Protest

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Starts with the idea that people are the experts in their own lives and can participate in the research process called Participatory Action Research.

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Correct Answer: True

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Spreading the word and bringing people together to support the goal of a social movement is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Mobilizing

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Frames that have near universal appeal are called _____ frames.

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Correct Answer: Master

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The ties that bind institutions and individuals together and help explain how social change can come from poor or powerless individuals is called Interdependent power.

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Correct Answer: True

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How leaders influence how people think about an issue by highlighting certain facts and themes while making others invisible is called ___.

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Correct Answer: Framing

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When an organization uses another group’s frames to discredit or ridicule its position is called _____ compettion.

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Correct Answer: Frame

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An organization working to end women’s oppression is called Feminism organization.

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Correct Answer: True

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Any set of social relationships in which men dominate women is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Feminism

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Holds that men and women are different but no value judgment can be placed on these differences are called Difference _____.

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Correct Answer: Feminism

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Individual activists become involved in a movement because of an issue directly affecting their community is called _____ -based organizing.

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Correct Answer: Community

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Happens when the leadership of the movement begins to identify with the targets of social change and starts to work more for them than for the original movement goals is called ____

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Correct Answer: Co-optation

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A sense of social bonding that strengthens our ties to one another is called Collective solidarity.

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Correct Answer: True

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Purposely breaking social customs or laws to make a point about a cause is called ____ .

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Correct Answer: Civil disobedience

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People who stand to benefit directly from the social change being sought are called ____ constituents.

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Correct Answer: Beneficiary

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Advocate for limited societal change but do not ask individuals to change their personal beliefs is called the Alternative Social Movement.

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Correct Answer: True

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A conscience constituent who is committed to the cause is called ____.

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Correct Answer: Ally

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