Intro To Sociology Quiz 5

Instrumental leaders influence others by (A) trying to keep a group moving towards goals (B) focusing on the creation of harmony (C) raising group morale (D) all of the above

(A) trying to keep a group moving towards goals

The following is a category: (A) Shoppers on line at a department store (B) People who have green eyes (C) People on the beach (D) Spectators at a football game

(B) People who have green eyes

A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact with one another: (A) social network (B) clique (C) in-group (D) reference group

(B) clique

Extensive diversity exists in the united states workplace today as evidenced by the facts that (A) assimulation is present in the workforce (B) more than half of the workforce is women, immigrants, and minorities (C) most of the workforce is white men (D) sterotypes in hidden corporate culture are flourishing

(B) more than half of the workforce is women, immigrants, and minorities

Resisting bureaucratic alienation entails workers (A) forming out groups (B) valuing each other (C) relating to one another as employees (D) staking a claim to conformity

(B) valuing each other

The following is not a voluntary association: (A) Girl Scouts (B) ELks (C) Gangs (D) Lutherans

(C) Gangs

The following is not an aggregate. (A) shoppers on a check-out line in a grocery store (B) People standing in line to buy the newest electronic device (C) People who have blonde hair (D) Spectators at a football game

(C) People who have blonde hair

Corporate Department heads have ideas regarding what it takes to get ahead and often believe that because they got ahead then people with similar characteristics to their own should be (A) fed poor information (B) provided access to weaker networks (C) fast tracked in positions (D) given less opportunities and challenges.

(C) fast tracked in positions

Expressive leaders (A) cause friction within the group (B) often lose popularity with the group (C) focus on harmony and morale (D) all of the above

(C) focus on harmony and morale

Sociologist claim that due to technological control of the workplace and global competition it seems we are moving towards al the following except (A) a maximum security society (B) a police state (C) greater freedom (D) the need for secrecy and security

(C) greater freedom

Groupthink (A) requires the free cirulation of diverse ideas (B) requires the free circulation of opposing ideas (C) is a kind of collective tunnel vision (D) all the above

(C) is a kind of collective tunnel vision

The following is not a primary group (A) family (B) friends (C) political Parties (D) gangs

(C) political Parties

An example of a bureaucracy is (A) the russian army (B) the united states postal service (C) fordham university (D) all of the above

(D) All of the above

Examples of bueaucratic goal displacement include (A) march of dimes (B) NATO (C) Rockland Codes Initiative (D) All of the above

(D) All of the above

The small world phenomenon is associated with: (A) Psychologist Stanley Milgram (B) the phrase six degrees of separation (C) the connections among social networks (D) All of the above

(D) All of the above

Individuals who temporarily share the same physical space, but who do not see themselves as belonging together comprise a(n)

Aggregate

Bureaucratic _______________, workers lack of connection to the product of their labor, caused by workers being assigned repetitive tasks on a small part of a product, which leads to a sense of powerlessness and formlessness

Alienation

_____________________ leaders, give orders, effective in emergency situations

Authoritarian

A formal organization with a hierarchy of authority and a clear division of labor, emphasis on imperiality of positions and written rules, communications, and records is a

Bureaucracy

People, objects, and events that have similar characteristics, and are classified together are a(n)

Category

Written__________ and ______________

Communication Records

_________________ leaders, lead by consensus, best for most situations

Democratic

Group size affects the groups dynamics, notably a ____________ consists of two people and is the most unstable of human groups by provides the most intimate relationships and the addition of a third person forms a ___________, and fundamentally changes relationships.

Dyad Triad

Group ____________________ is the ways in which individuals affects groups, and the ways in which groups affect individuals.

Dynamics

The Iron law of oligarchy is robert michels term for the tendency of formal organizations to be dominated by a small self perpetuating

Elite

As a group grows larger its intensity increases, but stability decreases.

False

As an adult you overcome the influence of the primary groups in your earlier life

False

Instrumental leaders, but not expressive leaders are essential to the functioning of groups

False

Once a bureaucracy attains its goal, the bureaucracy ceases to exist

False

Secondary Groups produce a mirror within

False

Self fulfilling stereotypes are preconceived ideas of what someone is like that lead to the persons behaving in ways opposite the stereotype

False

People who interact with on another and who believe that what they have in common is significant are called a _________ also called a ____________.

Group Social Group

_____________________ corporate culture is stereotypes of the traits that make for high performing and underperforming workers, which end up producing both types of workers.

Hidden

A group toward which one feels loyalty

IN

__________________ and ____________________

Impersonality Replacement

Division of ____________

Labor

____________________ leaders, highly permissive, usually ineffective

Laissez-faire

Seperate ______ with ________ flowing downward and _______ flowing upward.

Levels Assignments Accountability

A group toward which one feels antagonism

Out

The asch Experiment, which illustrates the power of _____________ and the milgram experiment which illustrates the influence of ________________________.

Peer Pressure Authority

_______________ Group, a small group categorized by cooperative, intimate, long-term ,face to face relationships

Primary

Bureaucratic ______ _________ a rule is a rule

Rea Tape

A group whose standards we refer to as we evaluate.

Reference

Written__________

Rules

__________ Group, a larger, relatively temporary, more anonymous, formal, and impersonal group based on some interest or activity.

Secondary

The social ties radiating outward from the self that link people together.

Social Network

A category of people is simply a statistic TF

TRUE

Research indicates that the uinintentional barriers that divide people into separate small worlds including geogrpahy, social class, gender, and race-ethnicity are difficult to overcome because even our social networks contribute to social inequality

True

Sociologist contend that when you meausure up to reference group standards then you are pleased, but if you do not march the refence gorups standards, then you experience inner turmoil

True

The mcdonalization of society suggests bureaucracies are transforming our everyday lives, through standardization, effiency rationalization and the potential elimination of evaluation social issues

True

A type of secondary group that is made up of people who voluntarily organize on the basis of some mutual interest is a

Voluntary Association