What are Defensive social movements?
A. Ongoing, large-scale, collective efforts to bring about -or resist- social change and to improve individuals' lives
B. Trying out new ways of cooperating and living together
C. Defend traditional values and social arrangements
D. Seek out and mobilize needed resources
Answer: C. Defend traditional values and social arrangements
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a. the massive oppression of the poor. b. the power of the drug cartels. c. a deep distrust of strangers. d. a widespread culture of violence.
An ethnic identity that is used only when the individual chooses is known as a(n): a. symbolic ethnicity
b. ethnicity of convenience. c. occasional ethnicity. d. chosen ethnicity.
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a. hidden from the rest of society b. defined as illegal or immoral c. addressed by religious groups d. public issues
Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance is known as:
A. resource mobilization theory. B. stagnancy theory. C. the equilibrium model. D. the emergent norm perspective.