Sociology Lesson 5

The concept "reference groups" can be defined as:

Groups to which an individual compares himself or herself.

______ describes how any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern.

Habitualization

Please place the following societies in chronological order:

Hunter-gatherer; Pastoral; Horticultural; Agricultural

Susan has the newest iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac. When a new Apple product is released, Susan stands in line for hours to be the first to buy it. Susan is a(n):

Instrumental function

An instrumental leader:

Is goal-oriented and largely concerned with accomplishing set tasks.

Christine is president of her Improvisation Comedy Troupe. When making decisions about booking gigs, rehearsal spaces, and call-times, Christine leaves the troupe to decide for themselves. Christine is a(n) _____ leader.

Laissez-faire

The concept anomie can be defined as:

A situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective consciousness.

Question 5 5 / 5 points Sandy is standing in line for Kanye West tickets. The line wraps around the block, spilling into the streets and crowding store windows. Sandy is part of a(n):

Aggregate

____ societies relied on permanent tools for survival, and expanded due to innovations such as crop rotation and fertilizer.

Agricultural

As industrialization began to boom, Durkheim believed people were more susceptible to anomie because: A) Collective norms are weakened. B) Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness. C) Specialization of labor lead to alienation. D) All of the above

All of the above

A total institution can be defined as:

An organization in which participants live a controlled lifestyle and in which total resocialization occurs.

Durkheim defined ______ as the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society.

Collective conscience

Charles Cooley's concept of the looking-glass self hypothesizes that:

People base their images on how they think other people see them.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a bureaucracy:

Personality-based promotion

When Michael starts high school, he joins the basketball team. He begins to look to his teammate friends for cues on how to behave at dances, in the hallways, and even in the classroom. Michael's basketball team is serving as Michael's _____.

Reference group

A judge and her gavel. A cop and his gun. A lawyer and her power suit. A ____ would be most concerned with the parts these objects play in impression management.

Symbolic interactionist

Alienation is defined by the text as:

The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self.

Solomon Asch concluded that one reason people conform to a group is because they believe:

The group is better informed than they are.

Karl Marx asserted that the means of societal change existed in the tension between:

The working class proletariat taking the means of production from the wealthy bourgeois.

Justin enrolls in a local community college so he can one day become an engineer. Justin is about to become a member of a:

Utilitarian organization