According to the Text, All of the Following Are True

question 17

Multiple Choice

According to the text, all of the following are true about U.S. social movements except

• A) they arise in response to changes in the political environment that create new political opportunities.
• B) they develop a sense of moral legitimacy and empowerment among participants.
• C) they create "free spaces" to develop alternatives to the mainstream culture.
• D) they continually narrow the scope of political conflict so as to restrict the range and number of social movement participants.
• E) they begin with narrow demands that escalate and radicalize members.

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Definitions:

Multiplicative Inverse

Also known as the reciprocal, it is a number which, when multiplied by the original number, results in a product of one.

Distributive Property

A property that allows one to multiply a single term by each term within a parenthesis in a sum or difference.

Real Numbers

The set of all rational and irrational numbers, including all numbers that can be written as a decimal.

Associative Property

A mathematical principle stating that the way in which terms are grouped in an operation (addition or multiplication) does not change the result.