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SOC100 Lecture 4 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Robert K. Merton's Deviance Typology Answer: ANOMIE ...
conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
Anomie Answer: a social condition in which norms are weak,
conflicting, or absent
Social Movement Answer: Any collection of people that coordinates
voluntary acts of ordinary not elite members of society
Transformative Movements Answer: Aim to change entire social
system often through revolution
Reformative Movements Answer: Aim to enact partial change within a
society (eg. union movement)
Redemptive Movements Answer: Aim to change individual members
of society through personal transformation (ex. religious movement)
Alternative Movements Answer: Aim to change specific aspect of
people's behaviours (ex. anti-tobacco)
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Past Social movements Answer: Lack of organization, no resources,
small #'s
Present day social movements Answer: Organized, have resources,
size (larger), has an ideology, persistence, technology
Machine Breaking Answer: Beginning of mechanization, occurred
during Industrial revolution
- Highly skilled craftspeople lost their jobs due to machines
- Hire unskilled workers because its cheaper
- New machinery for agriculture created greater profit
- People were living in poverty, took to breaking machines
- Rebellion against machines
Feminist Theory Answer: 1880s-today, three ways
first, second, third
First Wave Feminism Answer: right to vote; right to have child; right
to divorce/have custody after divorce; right to property; right to gain
higher education
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Second Wave Feminism Answer: Reproductive rights, recognition of
housework as labour, equal pay, laws against violence
Third Wave: Feminist Theory Answer: Different treatment for different
"kinds" of women, intersections of class, race, sexuality and disability
American Civil Rights movement Answer: Movement by black people
under MLK, destroy discrimination, right for black people to partake
in civil and political life
- Providing testing ground for new protests
- Practices such as sit ins, boycotts, not violent protests, test case
litigation
Anti-Apartheid Movement Answer: The Anti-Apartheid Movement
(AAM), originally known as the Boycott Movement, was a British
organisation that was at the centre of the international movement
opposing South Africa's system of apartheid and supporting South
Africa's non-whites
Environmental Movement Answer: Also known as ecology movement,
is broad term used to refer to many related movements and SMO's,
rather than a single unified movement
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SOC100 Lecture 4 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Robert K. Merton's Deviance Typology Answer: ANOMIE ...
conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
Anomie Answer: a social condition in which norms are weak,
conflicting, or absent
Social Movement Answer: Any collection of people that coordinates
voluntary acts of ordinary not elite members of society
Transformative Movements Answer: Aim to change entire social
system often through revolution
Reformative Movements Answer: Aim to enact partial change within a
society (eg. union movement)
Redemptive Movements Answer: Aim to change individual members
of society through personal transformation (ex. religious movement)
Alternative Movements Answer: Aim to change specific aspect of
people's behaviours (ex. anti-tobacco)
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Past Social movements Answer: Lack of organization, no resources,
small #'s
Present day social movements Answer: Organized, have resources,
size (larger), has an ideology, persistence, technology
Machine Breaking Answer: Beginning of mechanization, occurred
during Industrial revolution
- Highly skilled craftspeople lost their jobs due to machines
- Hire unskilled workers because its cheaper
- New machinery for agriculture created greater profit
- People were living in poverty, took to breaking machines
- Rebellion against machines
Feminist Theory Answer: 1880s-today, three ways
first, second, third
First Wave Feminism Answer: right to vote; right to have child; right
to divorce/have custody after divorce; right to property; right to gain
higher education
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Second Wave Feminism Answer: Reproductive rights, recognition of
housework as labour, equal pay, laws against violence
Third Wave: Feminist Theory Answer: Different treatment for different
"kinds" of women, intersections of class, race, sexuality and disability
American Civil Rights movement Answer: Movement by black people
under MLK, destroy discrimination, right for black people to partake
in civil and political life
- Providing testing ground for new protests
- Practices such as sit ins, boycotts, not violent protests, test case
litigation
Anti-Apartheid Movement Answer: The Anti-Apartheid Movement
(AAM), originally known as the Boycott Movement, was a British
organisation that was at the centre of the international movement
opposing South Africa's system of apartheid and supporting South
Africa's non-whites
Environmental Movement Answer: Also known as ecology movement,
is broad term used to refer to many related movements and SMO's,
rather than a single unified movement
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