Chapter 14

Question 0

Countermovement

Answer 0

Collective action designed to prevent or reverse changes sought or accomplished by an earlier social movement

Question 1

Anomie

Answer 1

Condition in which rapid change has disrupted society’s ability to adequately regulate and control its members and the old rules that governed people’s lives no longer seem to apply

Question 2

Cultural diffusion

Answer 2

Process by which beliefs, technology, customs, and other elements of culture spread from one group or society to another

Question 3

Global climate change

Answer 3

Steady rise in earth’s average temperature as a result of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Question 4

Ideology

Answer 4

Coherent system of beliefs, values, and ideas

Question 5

Postindustrial society

Answer 5

Society in which knowledge, the control of information, and service industries are more important elements of the economy than agriculture or manufacturing and production

Question 6

Reform movement

Answer 6

Collective action that seeks to change limited aspects of a society but does not seek to alter or replace major social institutions

Question 7

Revolutionary movement

Answer 7

Collective action that attempts to overthrow an entire social system and replace it with another

Question 8

Social movement

Answer 8

Continuous, large-scale, organized collective action motivated by the desire to enact, stop, or reverse change in some area of society