Eitzen, In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, 14th Edition, Test Bank
Chapter Seventeen: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures
Multiple Choice Questions
TB_Q17.1.1
Peter Berger’s comment, “Society penetrates us as much as it envelopes us,” is an expression of the _____ view, the
idea that human behavior or actions are entirely controlled by outside forces.
a. deterministic
b. agency
c. fatalistic
d. ideology
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.1.2
Which term descibes a collective attempt to promote or resist change?
a. Protest movement
b. Social movement
c. Determinism
d. Goal displacement
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.1.3
The term ideology is defined as
a. a collective/group attempt to promote or resist change.
b. the idea that human behavior or actions are entirely controlled by outside forces.
c. a set of ideas that explains reality, provides guidelines for behavior, and expresses the interests of a group.
d. what occurs when the goal of maintaining the formal structure of a movement’s organization becomes more
important than the original goals of the social movement.
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.1.4
Chapter Seventeen: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures
Groups that are explicitly organized either to resist change or seek to reverse changes that have already occurred and
restore traditional values are known as _____ movements.
a. revolutionary
b. counter–revolutionary
c. reform
d. resistance
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.1.5
Despite a political climate of weakened federal requirements and deregulation following the election of Ronald
Reagan, in 1989 Congress passed the _____ Act, historic legislation aimed at protecting the civil rights of people
with disabilities.
a. Americans with Disabilities
b. Rehabilitation
c. Revised Civil Rights
d. Disabilities in Action
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.1.6
_____ movements seek to alter a specific part of society, typically focusing on a single issue.
a. Resistance
b. Reform
c. Revolutionary
d. Social
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.1.7
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
As a result of _____ across the country, many universities notified manufacturers of university-branded
products that they must disclose the locations of their factories.
a. lawsuits by unions
b. student protests
c. discussion by faculty committees
d. consensus among apparel manufacturers
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q17.1.8
What did the Arab Spring of 2011 have in common with the 1917 Communist overthrow of the Tsarist regime in
Russia?
a. Neither resulted in observable change.
b. These events had nothing in common.
c. Both fit the criteria for a revolutionary movement.
d. Both fit the criteria for a resistance movement.
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q17.1.9
The stage of _____ is reached when a social movement is integrated into society and its goals have been
accomplished.
a. goal determinism
b. goal displacement
c. assimilation
d. institutionalization
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.1.10
Chapter Seventeen: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures
What is the term for a time when the goal of maintaining the formal structure of a movement’s organization becomes
more important than the original goals of the social movement?
a. Goal displacement
b. Goal integration
c. Assimilation
d. Institutionalization
Learning Objective: LO 17.1: Understand the types and life course of social movements.
Topic/Concept: Social Movements
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.2.11
Though Rosa Parks is credited with starting the civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to move to the back
of the bus, in fact this movement
a. was started behind closed doors at a secret meeting of the leaders of the Baptist church and the federal
government.
b. is not the result of one event but the inevitable outcome of centuries of mistreatment of Black people by White
people and their governments.
c. actually began with the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
d. began in 1960 with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q17.2.12
What term is used in the chapter to refer to fugitive slaves who formed small guerrilla groups that harassed
neighboring plantations and helped other slaves to escape?
a. Pirates
b. Freedom fighters
c. Outlyers
d. Terrorists
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.13
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
According to Harding, one way newly freed Blacks asserted their independence after the Civil War, despite
ongoing oppression, was to
a. request permission to carry guns and drive carriages.
b. enslave White people in sharecropper arrangements.
c. send their children to formerly Whites-only schools.
d. withdraw women from the full-time agricultural labor force.
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.14
Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following
the Civil War?
a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White
people.
b. The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings.
c. The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites.
d. Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q17.2.15
The _____ were laws passed by Southern states and local governments to keep Blacks “in their place.”
a. Emancipation Proclamations
b. Black Codes
c. Jim Crow laws
d. Black Exclusion Acts
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.16
Chapter Seventeen: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures
In the early 20th century, _____ were passed that allowed all public facilities in the South to be segregated,
under the principle of separate but equal.
a. emancipation proclamations
b. Black Codes
c. Jim Crow laws
d. sharecropper fairness laws
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.17
Shortly after World War II, the NAACP challenged the concept of separate but equal schooling in the courts. In
1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate educational
facilities are
a. a matter on which the American public should vote.
b. a matter for the states to decide.
c. inherently equal.
d. inherently unequal.
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.2.18
Who was the young minister who emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement and inspired African Americans to
use nonviolent resistance to overthrow their oppressors’ unfair laws and practices?
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Malcolm X
c. Eldridge Cleaver
d. Emmitt Till
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.19
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Which law came out of the Civil Rights Movement and banned discrimination in public facilities, education,
employment, and in any agency receiving government funds?
a. 1964 Civil Rights Bill
b. 1965 Voting Rights Act
c. 1972 Equal Rights Amendment
d. 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.2.20
Which law prohibited the use of literacy and similar tests to screen voting applicants and allowed federal
examiners to monitor elections?
a. 1964 Civil Rights Bill
b. 1965 Voting Rights Act
c. 1972 Equal Rights Amendment
d. 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
Learning Objective: LO 17.2: Know the general history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: The Civil Rights Movement
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.3.21
The first convention in history devoted to women’s rights was held in July 1848 in
a. Montgomery, Alabama.
b. Seneca Falls, New York.
c. Waldon Pond, Massachusetts.
d. Amherst, Massachusetts.
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.3.22
In what year were women in the United States granted the right to vote?
a. 1776
b. 1860
c. 1914
d. 1920
Chapter Seventeen: Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.3.23
What term was used by the early feminists who demanded that women be given to the right to vote?
a. Civil rights
b. Women’s liberation
c. Feminist voting rights
d. Women’s suffrage
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q17.3.24
The Civil Rights Movement and other protest movements of the 1960s spread the ideology of _____. But like the
early feminists, women involved in these political protest movements were frustrated by the male dominance they
encountered.
a. equality
b. voting rights
c. separate but equal
d. overthrowing all civilized values
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.3.25
As Susan Faludi noted in 1991, political, legal, and media opposition to _____ continues to undermine women’s
equality.
a. mothers
b. feminism
c. the poor
d. formal protest organizations
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.3.26
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
The chapter notes that one of the most recent, interesting, and successful battles for gender equity has occurred in
_____, although it was (and is) an institution that contributes to and perpetuates male dominance in society.
a. higher education
b. the business world
c. sports
d. the men’s movement
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q17.3.27
Patti was a high school athlete in 1971, when _____ girls participated in sports. Today, her granddaughter takes it for
granted that she can play goalie on her soccer team and dream of being just like Hope Solo.
a. more than 3.17 million
b. almost 1.3 million
c. more than 750,000
d. fewer than 300,000
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q17.3.28
Today, many feminist activities occur at _____, where issues of race, class, and sexuality are important and part of
people’s daily lives.
a. the grassroots level
b. the National Organization for Women
c. Seneca Falls
d. the corporate level
Learning Objective: LO 17.3: Know the general history of feminist movements in the United States.
Topic/Concept: Human Agency: Feminist Movements in the United States
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q17.3.29