Ways of Social Change 2nd Edition Massey Test Bank
Test Bank for Ways of Social Change Making Sense of Modern Times 2nd Edition by Garth M. Massey, ISBN-10: 1506306624, ISBN-13: 9781506306629
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Personal Experience of Social Change
Chapter 2. Recognizing Social Change
Chapter 3. Understanding and Explaining Social Change
Chapter 4. Technology, Science, and Innovation: The Social Consequences of New Knowledge and New Ways to Do Things
Chapter 5. Social Movements: Social Change Through Contention
Chapter 6. War, Revolution, and Social Change: Political Violence and Structured Coercion
Chapter 7. Corporations in the Modern Era: The Commercial Transformation of Material Life and Culture
Chapter 8. The State and Social Change: The Uses of Public Resources for the Common Good
Chapter 9. Making Social Change: Engaging a Desire for Social Change
Ways of Social Change, 2nd edition
April 2015
READING QUIZ QUESTIONS
Note to Instructors
Many instructors find a reading quiz to be a useful tool that encourages students to do assigned reading in a timely fashion. These multiple-choice questions provide a readings quiz for Ways of Social Change.
The questions are designed to evaluate only the reading activity and memory of your students. They do not evaluate students’ comprehension, deeper understanding and critical thinking of the book’s topics. In my experience, these can be better cultivated and evaluated in discussions and other means of assessment, for example short-answer exams, and by engaging in the Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study at the end of each chapter.
Questions to these readings quiz questions are arranged in the order in which the quiz material appears in each chapter, providing a measure of how far the student has read. Correct answers are indicated with an asterisk.
As with any multiple-choice question, there could be more than one right answer, but only one answer is the best answer. Other answers may be interesting, possible, and worth discussing, but they are not what the students have read in Ways of Social Change.
Chapter 1. The Personal Experience of Social Change
Social change can be understood as the accomplishment of:
a. the passing of time
*b. millions of people, living and dead
c. an unfolding plan of a deity more powerful than any human being
d. the men and women who made significant contributions to human progress
Who is the woman described in Chapter 1?
a. the author of science fiction novels
b. the CEO of one of the largest global corporations in the world
c. a scientist who was long forgotten but discovered in the 1980s
*d. no one special; just a woman who lived through much of the 20th century
Iris Summers’ children are described as:
*a. Baby Boomers
b. troubled and unable to fit into their time and place
c. a mixture of individuals with very special abilities
d. a soldier, a housewife, a doctor and a carpenter
When was the pace of social change probably the greatest?
a. the years between the founding of the United States and the Civil War
b. between 1492 and 1547
*c. the last half of the twentieth century
d. the years since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
One of the main reasons people adopted their family name was:
*a a government wanted to keep tabs on them, to draft them into war or tax them
b. of their religion and their desire to be identified with it
c. the need to marry “out of their lineage,” that is, in order to avoid marrying a close relative
d. the rise in geographic mobility and the need to keep in touch with those left behind
What prominent people’s names provide a record of ethnic groups’ gains in the US?
a. Presidents of the United States
b. CEOs of the largest global corporations
c. any city’s telephone directory
*d. boxers or prizefighters
What popular technology was acquired by people of modest means beginning in 1900?
a. an automobile
b. a bicycle
*c. a Kodak Brownie camera
d. a clothes washing machine
Iris Summers grew up:
a.with a silver spoon in her mouth, that is, affluent and privileged
b.before she was ready, having left school after 5th grade and having her first child at 15
c.in a large city and spent her formative years living in the top floor of an old tenement
*d. on a farm, poor, but in a largely self-sufficient family able to provide for most of its needs
During Iris Summers’ youth and early adulthood, what great transformation was occurring:
a. science discovered the source of life
*b. farm life and agriculture, with millions of rural people and their children become part of the urban labor force
c. women’s liberation and changing gender relations
d. nuclear weapons altered the balance of international power and the nature of war
What family relationship was common when Iris Summers was a girl and is again common, but was more unusual in the middle of the last century?
a. children living with single parents
b. new couples buying homes and living close to their parents
c. blended families, with children of different biological parents forming a family when their parents divorce and remarry
