Question

The Shriners are a fraternity based on the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief, and truth. They have roughly 375,000 members and 191 temples in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Shriners support Shriners Hospitals for Children, a system of 22 hospitals dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing specialty pediatric care. What prohibits the Shriners from being a social movement?
a. It’s very hard to imagine membership in the Shriners transforming anyone’s life.

b. They aren’t dedicated enough to their work.

c. They do not seek to fundamentally alter the status quo.

d. They aren’t organized enough.

e. They don’t have an ideological commitment.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is e.

Explanation:

A social movement, such as the masons, has an ideological manifesto that guides all of it's activities. This manifesto should be clearly stated and every member must follow what it staates. The Shriners, on the other hand, provide pediatric care to children, but they lack a ideological manifesto, or commitment. So they are not a social movement.