Multiple Choice Questions

No single theory provides a full explanation of all aspects of social change.
  • True
  • False
According to the conflict theory of social change, social change is the result of conflicts between groups with the same interests.
  • True
  • False
Culture in which people seek knowledge through science.
  • Social change
  • the powerless to gain power.
  • Sensate culture
  • Ideational culture
Theory that holds that a change in one part of society produces changes in all other parts.
  • Conflict theory of social change
  • Equilibrium theory of social change
  • cyclical theory of social change
  • how societies are able to change yet maintain order.
Theory that change results from conflicts between groups with opposing interests.
  • cyclical theory of social change
  • Equilibrium theory of social change
  • how societies are able to change yet maintain order.
  • Conflict theory of social change
The social change theory that provides a historical view of social change in which societies are seen as rising and then falling or as continuously moving back and forth between stages of development.
  • cyclical theory of social change
  • Equilibrium theory of social change
  • Conflict theory of social change
  • how societies are able to change yet maintain order.
_________________ is the result of the natural tendency for societies to pass through stages of development.
  • Ideational culture
  • False
  • Sensate culture
  • Social change
Modern theories of social change suggest that all societies follow similar patterns of development.
  • True
  • False
Culture in which truth and knowledge are sought through faith or religion.
  • Sensate culture
  • Ideational culture
  • Social change
  • the powerless to gain power.
The natural tendency toward social change.
  • Principle of immanent change (by Pitirim Sorokin)
  • how societies maintain order.
  • Sensate culture
  • the powerless to gain power.
Equilibrium theory appeals to some sociologists because it explains
  • False
  • how societies are able to change yet maintain order.
  • True
  • how societies maintain order.
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