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When sociologists think about technology as an agent of social change, which of the following is not an example? Population growth Medical advances The Internet Genetically engineered food

The actions and inactions of human beings are a major part of the slow-developing emergence of pandemics; the germs or other infectious agents involved are incapable of getting into hosts without those human actions/inactions.

Intense, though brief, public obsessions with Hula hoops, Pogs, Pokemon cards, Pot-belly pigs, hoverboards, or mood rings are all examples of a. fads or crazes. b. fashion. c. social movements. d. mass hysteria episodes.

According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are: irrational and impulsive often misinterpreted and misdirected able to develop their own definition of the situation prone to criminal behavior

In the study of collective behavior, the distinction between crowds and masses is that a. crowds are collectives while masses are not. b. crowds are capable of expressive behavior but not instrumental behavior. c. crowds are only capable of instrumental behavior while not expressive behavior. d. crowds are people in close proximity while masses are geographically dispersed.

I noted in a few places that in panic situations, people might behave in ways that seem rational at that moment.  However, we have to realized that those people are acting on the basis on limted–even false–information, limited ratioanal communication (or none at all), or on their pre-conditioned and individual emotional resonses.

The protesters at the Egypt uprising rally were: a casual crowd a conventional crowd a mass an acting crowd

Karl Marx believed that religion was the ‘opium of the people’ because it: a. stimulates conflict. b. offers relief and escape from reality. c. is practiced predominantly by the poor. d. is practiced predominantly by the rich.

Widely circulated tales about pedophile Democrats, riotous and terroristic ‘antifa’ protestors, or the belief that Biden lost the 2020 election, but stole the election, are classic case studies in: a. revolutionary and resistance social movements. b. acting crowds, specifically mobs. c. mass hysterias and mass/collective delusions. d. collective panic scenarios. e. both a & b  

Social change occurs slowly and gradually in traditional (mechanistic, or Gemeinschaft-based) societies.