Describe the types of social movements and discuss how they differ
What will be an ideal response?
There are six types of social movements. They differ based on the target of change and the amount of change the movement seeks. Two movements are targeted toward individual change: alterative movements which seek to alter some particular behavior of people; and redemptive movements in which the aim is for total change of the individual. In the other two movements, reformative and transformative, society is the target of change. The goal of a reformative social movement is to change some aspect of society. Transformative movements, however, have the goal of transforming the social order itself and replacing it with a new version of the good society. Transnational social movements seek to change some issue worldwide, often centering in the quality of life. The metaformative social movement seeks to change the social order of an entire civilization or the world order and poses a threat to the existing social order.
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a) directly interrelated. b) have no commonality. c) based on whether the parents want kids or a career. d) based on the economy.
Which of the following best describes the changes in household size throughout the history of the United States?
a. Family size has shrunk dramatically from the early farming years to the current urban setting. b. The family in the United States today consists predominantly of small nuclear families; for the first two hundred years of U.S. history, the family was a large extended family. c. The proportion of people living alone has gradually decreased. d. The nuclear family seems to have long been preeminent, with household sizes shrinking only modestly over the past few centuries.