Answer each essay question in one half of a page, double space, font 12
ESSAY ONE: Charles Tilly opposed Huntington’s modernization theory.
ESSAY TWO: Theda Skocpol criticized shortcomings of the Marxist thought analysis of social revolutions.
TRUE OR FALSE?
1……………. Because American social movements were mostly mastered by elites, it is true America never experienced a social movement.
2…………….Martin Luther King, Jr., confronted police brutality by acts of violence.
3…………… Black panthers was a movement that protected the civil rights of Black people by acts of war.
4……………. Sojourner Truth is acknowledged globally as a pioneer of feminists’ movement.
5……………. Similar to Max Weber, Goldstone theorized that social revolutions often ended with authoritative regimes.
6……………It is correct to assume that a proletariat revolution might be kidnapped or frustrated by a bourgeoisie elitist group as a counter-revolution.
7…………….The French Revolution failed to maintain its revolutionary mode, unlike the Russian and Chinese revolutions that were led from the beginning to the end by parties committed to a working class agenda.8……………
8…………….The Iranian revolution was basically initiated and led by Muslim leaderships.
9……………. Huntington predicted countries that never tasted democracy or struggled for economic and political change would not likely run unto a social revolution.
10………… Middle-East wars might not cease to occur unless full international human rights’ norms would be implemented without discrimination between all peoples in the region.
FILL BETWEEN THE BRACKTS
THE NUMBER OF THE CORRET ANSWER IN THE PASSAGE
( ) structural
( ) success
( )ideology
( ) Levels
( ) genuine
( ) sizable
( ) Huntington
( ) limited
( ) unlike
( ) leaderships
( ) new
( ) Tilly
( ) agenda
( ) sufficient
( ) sufficient
( ) uprooting
( ) disfranchised
( ) organization
( ) leaderships
( ) rarely
( ) objectives
( )transformation
Social Movements is relatively a (1) discipline in sociology. It examines the possible factors that motivate a social movement by a (2) number of people interested in a social (3) of society to satisfy necessary needs of deprived groups or minorities. For Samuel (4), social revolutions occur (5) in history by social groups pursuing (6) social change in the social life of society. Social revolutions, (7) social movements, aim at an overall (8) of society with (9) changes, unlike social movements that restrict goal-achievement to (10) changes such as reforms in the economy or more election rights to (11) groups. Multiple factors play in the formation and development of social revolutions. Tilly theorized (12) funding, clear (13), flexible recruitment, commitment to (14), and competent (15) to bring up successful movements or revolutions. (16) of modernization or past experiences or even disenchantment about unfair or failure governance would not guarantee successful movements, affirmed (17). It is only when members of a movement or revolution become determined by effective (18), competent (19), (20) funding, and popular support that (21) might be attainable.