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Develop an essay that highlights various qualities of modern societies following (a) mass-society theory and (b) class-society theory. Carefully describe modern societies in such a way as to bring out the differences in the two theories. On what points do they agree? In your opinion, which is the more convincing argument? Why?

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Emile Durkheim understood modernization in terms of changes in societal solidarity.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following four statements is FALSE?


A) The future probably will not be as good as the present.
B) Science does not hold all the answers.
C) Cultural debates are intensifying.
D) The family and other social institutions are not changing.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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David Riesman described other-directed social character as which of the following?


A) eagerness to adopt the latest fashions and fads
B) rigid conformity to established ways of life
C) being highly individualistic
D) an unwillingness to adopt the latest fashions and fads

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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According to Emile Durkheim, modern societies are held together by difference, a process he called "organic solidarity."

A) True
B) False

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In the post-industrial world, control of the "means of production"-using Marxist terms-means access to


A) wealth.
B) information.
C) power.
D) industrial capital.

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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"Postmodernity" refers to societies transformed by the Industrial Revolution.

A) True
B) False

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Karl Marx understood modernity in terms of which of the following?


A) the rise of rationality
B) increasing productive specialization
C) the rise of the capitalist economic system
D) the loss of traditional community

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Individuals experience modern mass societies in terms of


A) pronounced moral relativism.
B) little personal choice.
C) too little privacy.
D) powerlessness.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The Kaiapo of Brazil's rainforest show us that


A) "progress" is typically good.
B) social change is usually good for everyone.
C) people do not have to change if they do not want to.
D) people sometimes gain money at the cost of losing their cultural foundation.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Modernity is the concept used for the social patterns that began to change the world about when?


A) the 1490s
B) the 1600s
C) the 1750s
D) the 1920s

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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Social change results from invention, discovery, and cultural diffusion.

A) True
B) False

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Sociologists point out that


A) some societies change and others do not.
B) social change happens all the time.
C) all social change is good.
D) social change occurs in fits and starts.

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Mass-society theory argues that the scale of social life is increasing, leaving people feeling lost in a world of vast and impersonal bureaucracies.

A) True
B) False

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Difficulty forming a personal identity is a problem of modernity highlighted by mass-society theory.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following is NOT a trait that Berger links to modernity?


A) the decline of large cities
B) the expansion of personal choice
C) increasing social diversity
D) a future orientation and growing awareness of time

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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The fact that the coins we use were an idea that came from the Middle East centuries ago is an example of which of the following?


A) invention
B) discovery
C) diffusion
D) exclusion

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Karl Marx highlighted which of the following in the process of social change?


A) invention
B) ideas
C) social conflict
D) cultural diffusion

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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The theory of postmodernity claims that, in important respects, modernity has failed to live up to its promise.

A) True
B) False

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To say that modern society has a "mass scale" means that many fewer people


A) live in small communities.
B) have a strong sense of cultural heritage.
C) are very sure about what is right and wrong.
D) live in large metropolitan centres.

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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