Identify and define the five major types of social movements and provide an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
Reformist: seek change within existing economic and political system. Utopian: withdraw from dominant society and create own ideal communities. Revolutionary: seek to fundamentally alter existing economic, political, and social system; vision of a new social order. Rebellion: seek to overthrow existing system but lack plan for new social order. Reactionary: seek to restore earlier social system, along with traditional norms and values that accompanied it. Examples vary.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a) neglected; exploited. b) physically abused; sexually abused. c) physically abused; emotionally abused d) physically abused; neglected.
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A. conflict B. materialist C. functionalist D. demographic