SOCI 1510 FINAL EXAM PREP 2025/2026 COMPLETE
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Factors that lead to emergence: .......Answer.........Grievances,
opportunity, space, and availability of resources
Stages that social movements tend to go through:
.......Answer.........1. Public defines the problem
2. People organize
3. Movement becomes bureaucratized
4. Movement begins to decline
Technological Determinism .......Answer.........A theory of social
change that assumes changes in technology drive changes in
society, rather than vice versa
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Cultural Lag .......Answer.........The time between changes in
material culture or technology and the resulting changes in the
broader culture's relevant norms, values, meanings, and laws
In Relationships (Social Change) .......Answer.........After the tragic
MSD school shooting that took the lives of 14 teenagers and 3
staff (17 wounded), students created a group called Never
Again MSD where they advocated for gun control
Global Perspective (Social Change) .......Answer.........Leaders in
the small country of Bhutan are attempting to control the pace of
social change and achieving Gross National Happiness through
studying the Wests' good and bad
An economy deals with: .......Answer.........Production, distribution,
and consumption
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Structural Functionalism (Econ/Work) .......Answer.........A stratified
labor market maintains the system
Conflict Theory (Econ/Work) .......Answer.........A stratified labor
market creates exploitation and conflict
Symbolic Interactionism (Econ/Work) .......Answer.........Work is
central to our identity and self-concept
What was the earliest American economy?
.......Answer.........Hunting and gathering societies (later
transitioned to horticultural societies)
Characteristics of Agricultural Revolution .......Answer.........Social
and economic changes, population increases, and increased
efficiency of food production
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Characteristics of Industrial Revolution .......Answer.........Rapid
transformations to social life, technological and economic
developments (assembly line, steam power, urbanization)
Characteristics of Information Revolution .......Answer.........Made
possible by the development of the microchip, knowledge
workers, service workers
Characteristics of Capitalism .......Answer.........Free market
competition, privatization of the means of production, production
for a profit (supply/demand as a means to set a price)
Pros of Capitalism .......Answer.........Encourages efficiency, new
technology, expansion of markets, cost cutting
Cons of Capitalism .......Answer.........Class stratification,
privatization of basic human services, transnational reach,
exploitation