World Scholar's Cup Social Studies — practice questions
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Practice World Scholar's Cup Social Studies in the app →A factory owner in 1890 replaces his steam plant with a power source that also lights the building. That sourcBefore that switch, the machinery of the first industrial age had been driven by:Workers stand at fixed stations while belts carry parts past them for fitting. This arrangement is the:A new hire learns his whole job in a day and knows he is easily replaced. Mechanisation had made factory work:A mill hand works fourteen hours and still cannot cover the rent. Alongside long hours, workers earned:A village family moves to a mill town, joining thousands doing the same. This swelling of cities is called:Asked why they left the countryside, most nineteenth century migrants said they had come to:A city lays pipes running in from the surrounding countryside. Those pipes brought in:Cleaner water, steadier food and better medical care reach an industrial city. Together these:The first nation to industrialise also led the way in ending child labour. That nation was:A child working in a British mill in 1820 was protected by a law capping her working day at:A British textile mill in 1834 may no longer employ any child below the age of:A Prussian factory in 1840 may not employ any child below the age of:Under that same Prussian law, a fifteen year old's shift was capped at:Children finally left the factory floor for the schoolroom once governments required:Weavers in one town organise as weavers rather than alongside every local worker. They have formed:The American Federation of Labor was originally called the Federation of Organized Trades and:In Britain and the United States, unions grew without a political party behind them, which means they developeBy the middle of the nineteenth century, utopian socialism had been largely replaced by:The French economist and philosopher who first used that term was:The influential party formed in 1875 that advocated laws to improve working-class conditions was the:A peasant in 1750 lived much as his grandfather had. Before the nineteenth century, life is described as changStrangers gather in a station, dance for two minutes and scatter. Sociologists call this kind of voluntary, unThousands of fans pack into one stadium for a concert. That grouping in close proximity is best called a:Millions of readers follow the same news story from different cities, never meeting. Sociologists call that grEarly theorists in the 1890s explained crowd behaviour mainly by treating crowds as:After a hurricane, neighbours take supplies from a flooded shop and see it as survival while outsiders call itThe sociologists who developed that theory of new norms in unfamiliar situations were:Under that theory, people in an unfamiliar situation first:A sociologist argues several conditions must stack up before a crowd acts at all. That functionalist account iAnother sociologist credits people in crowds as rational actors deciding to gather. His account is the:Staff at a university protest a bill cutting their bargaining rights on campus. That is a social movement at wAn organisation campaigning for one state to leave the union is operating at which level?Bodies campaigning worldwide on poverty, trafficking and genetically modified food operate at which level?Several organisations working on the same issue together make up a social movement:All of a society's social movement industries taken together form its social movement:A campaign opens by naming the problem clearly so anyone can grasp it. That is:Two movements with similar problems merge their goals into one. That process is called:How many aspects does that alignment process have?A movement builds a link to uninvolved individuals and unorganised groups. That aspect is:A movement broadens its core ideas so they appeal more widely and mobilise more people. That is:Two movements agree to promote each other even though their immediate goals differ. That is:A movement that has won its original demand completely revises its goals to stay relevant. That is:Frames are described as helping individuals identify and understand social events and work out which:A visitor keeps her metro pass, boards the bus and waits at its shelter. All those physical things are:The ideas, attitudes and beliefs a society holds, none of which can be touched, make up its:Every society studied finds food, marks birth and treats illness in some way. Such shared elements are called:An anthropologist went looking for shared elements across cultures while studying kinship systems. He was:A traveller decides a country's eating habits are simply wrong because they differ from home. That judging is:A student insists everything about a foreign culture is better than anything at home. That belief is:A researcher weighs a custom by the standards of the culture it belongs to, not by her own. That practice is:Landing abroad, a visitor is knocked sideways by differences she never expected. That reaction is:One country deliberately presses its own values onto another country's way of life. That is cultural:The convictions people hold to be true, learned from deeply embedded values, are their:Written, established rules exist in every society and can be pointed to in black and white. Those are:Casual behaviours that nearly everyone follows are picked up by watching and copying others. Those are:Norms that carry a group's moral views and principles are its:Norms with no moral weight behind them, such as how people queue, are:A group withholds approval until a member falls back into line. Such tools of social control are:Cosplayers form a smaller cultural group living inside the larger culture. That group is a:A group turns its back on some of the larger culture's norms and values outright. That group is a:Knowing the opera repertory is set against knowing the pop charts. The first of the pair is called:Sociologists sort cultural change into two kinds. One is innovation, meaning new, and the other is:An object or an idea turns up in a society for the very first time. Sociologists call that an:Trade knits markets together and nations across regions grow interdependent. That process is:Two linguists in the 1920s argued that the language you speak shapes how you see the world. Their claim is: