MoveOn.org was one of the first groups to successfully organize people around issues like partisan bickering and the power of corporate lobbies in Washington. This was, in large part, because it used innovative technology to locate, recruit, and organize supporters. This is exactly what __________ theory would predict.

Many people think that nuclear proliferation can be best understood as a tragedy of the commons. Which of the following might they propose as a solution if someone sees nuclear proliferation this way?

Sociologists tend to stop asking what __________ and start asking what __________ when they reject the hypodermic needle model.

Given the history of the family, what sort of changes do you think would be most likely to make the extended family more relevant again?

According to Randall Collins, why do members of lucrative professions like law and medicine support the current educational system?

From your course material, what’s both good and awful about palm oil?

Teenage boys sometimes watch football games on Sunday only because they wish to be able to make conversation with their classmates on Monday. Which theory best explains this?

Many popular social media platforms contain algorithms designed to show users content they will like and agree with, or content that will elicit a strong reaction. The online echo chambers created by these algorithms tend to

Approximately 12,000 years ago, people began to domesticate grain in what we now call the Middle East. This involved a process that slowly spread around the world over the next 6,000 to 7,000 years. In 1984, 8 percent of U.S. households had a computer, but that number was above 70 percent in 2008. How do these two things relate to social change?

According to Randall Collins, our educational system is much like a “tribal initiation rite,” a “secret society,” or a “closed occupational caste.” For Collins, it is not a rational system that produces more efficient production but a mechanism for