Inquizitive 5

a primary group

- a group of close friends and family members who get together to watch saturday night live on television each week

Primary group

- a married couple - a close-knit group of adult friends who have been together since middle school

secondary group

- a professional football team - a tailoring shop that makes bespoke (fully custom) suits for men

Structural functionalism

- affiliation groups like fraternities help create social cohesion in the context of a larger, possibly alienating, university system by bringing young men with shared values together

technical competence

- all members are expressly trained and qualified for their specific roles within the organization

specialization

- all members of a bureaucracy are assigned specific roles and tasks

a category

- all of the people watching Saturday Night Live on television last saturday

true statements about social media sites according to the statistics in the textbook

- almost 70% of all adults use a social networking site - every month, 1.1 billion people use instagram

True statements about social media engagement and our social connections

- americans are no more or less lonely or detached from one another than they have ever been - users of social media are more connected than nonusers

Robert Putnam

- americans have drastically reduced their levels of civic engagement over time

hierarchy

- bureaucracies always feature the supervision of subordinates by higher-ranking managers and bosses

Jen's soccer league is quite large. it includes 12 teams, and each team has approximately 15 members. Jen is very popular and has the most ties with individuals throughout the league. which social network concept best describes jen's situation?

- certrality

in-group

- classy - laid back

formal written communication

- documents such as memos (or emails) are the heart of the organization and the most effective way to communicate

Emile Durkheim

- group membership prevents a state of normlessness

aspects of group dynamics

- how groups achieve goals - how groups disintegrate - how groups change - how groups form

Impersonality

- in a bureaucracy, rules come before people; no individual receives special treatment

conflict theory

- in group and out group dynamics can contribute to stereotyping and conflict as fraternity brothers develop an "us vs. them" perspective regarding other frats and non-greeks

An employee at the local Department of Motor Vehicles puts in an eight-hour shift and then goes to a local bar and grill to celebrate a co-worker's birthday. What aspect of bureaucracy does this situation highlight?

- interpersonal interactions help humanize bureaucracies

false statements about social media engagement and our social connections

- no quantitative research has been conducted to examine how social media engagement influences social connections - facebook users have fewer close relationships and higher levels of social support than users of other social media and nonusers

out-group

- snobbish - lazy

Jeff Bezos, founder of amazon, has a rule that if a team cannot be fed by 2 pizzas, the team is too large. the "two pizza" rule exemplifies the concept of

- social loafing

Sherry Turkle

- societies value technology over relationships

expressive leadership

- the CEO of starbucks considers requiring all stores to being opening at 4:30am but after considering the undue stress it may add to employees, decided not to implement the change

an aggregate

- the audience at a taping of saturday night live

a secondary group

- the cast members of saturday night live

symbolic interactionism

- the pressure to conform to group culture (as in the cases of peer pressure and groupthink) can lead individuals to do things they might never do alone, and can have negative consequences, as in the case of frats hazing and binge drinking. it can also lead to positive actions, such as when frat members volunteer or raise money for charity

rules and regulations

- these are meant to make all operations as predictable as possible

Which statements correctly describe "the strength of weak ties"?

- weak ties provide benefits that strong ties do not - weak ties provide access to valuable information

instrumental leadership

- your boss does not care that forcing employees to work through the weekend may hurt morale. The project must be done by monday - the CEO of McDonald's knows that laying off 500 workers will bring discord among other employees but knows they much do so to meet quarterly goals

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The differences between a group and a (crowd) is whether the members identify with one another and whether interaction is temporary or permanent. A primary group consists of people such as (family members), whereas a secondary group might consist of people such as (students taking this course)

Melissa is a student studying biology at the university of michigan. she grew up in michigan, in a nearby town. identify each person as being a member of an in-group or out-group for melissa

in-group - a current community college student with whom Melissa went to high school - a history major at the university of michigan - her sister who is a student at michigan state Out-group - an ohio state student who went to Melissa's rival high school in michigan

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power is the ability to (control) the actions of others and if legitimated, provides (authority). power can be (coercive) when it is backed by the threat of force, or (influential) when it is supported by persuasion

In the context of Charles Horton Cooley's theory of groups, classify each attribute as belonging to either primary or secondary groups

primary - end themselves - enduring membership secondary - instrumental in purpose - impersonal - contingent membership

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Katie, Tara and Shanice are three african american women who just started college. the three of them make up an (triad). Katie and Tara often have friction in their friendship, so Shanice must referee between the two of them and adds (stability) in the group. these 3 friends are also members of a sorority and complete with a neighboring sorority over who throws the best parties. they see the neighboring sorority as an (out-group)