Chapter 16 - Lesson 1 and 2 Quiz

1. For sociologists, social change occurs when many members of the society adopt new __________________.

• behaviors

• processes

2. A series of steps that lead gradually to a result is called a ___________________.

• revolution

• process

3. Sociologists who study the growth, size, composition, distribution, and movement of human populations are ___________________.

• psychologists

• demographers

4. The sudden and complete overthrow of an existing social or political order is a ___________________.

• revolution

• war

5. Compared to the long history of planet Earth, human social changes can best be stated as occurring ..........

• very rapidly

• very slowly

6. The work of Galileo and Copernicus led to the abandonment of the long-help belief that Earth was the center of the solar system. This work was an example of the social process identified as ................

• invention

• discovery

7. The sociological process by which one culture or society borrows from another culture or society is ............

• diffusion

• tension

8. Increased global markets and new markets have made products more available to more people around the world. This statement best illustrates ............

• politics as a force in globalization.

• economics as a force in globalization.

9. Functionalism draws the conclusion that enactment of civil rights laws in the 1960s was a result of the struggle related to racial equality.

• True

• False

10. Equilibrium is a state of functioning and balance maintained by a society’s tendency to make small adjustments to respond to change.

• True

• False