Quiz 5
What is the danger of too much group cohesion?
It can lead to groupthink, where dissenting opinions are strongly discouraged.
Unlike either traditional authority or legal-rational authority, charismatic authority is rooted in:
The personal qualities of the leader
Which of the following is NOT true about conformity?
only weak-minded individuals are susceptible to pressures to conform
In 1978 Jim Jones, the leader of the People's Temple, led more than 900 of his followers to commit suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. In the run up to this event, Jones had strictly enforced discipline, mocking and ridiculing anyone who expressed doubts, at times even having doubters sedated. This extreme effort to enforce conformity is an example of:
peer pressure
You and your family, friends, peers, colleagues, teachers, and co-workers constitute a(n):
social network
What happens to a group when the number of people in the group increases?
the number of possible relationships increases
Which of the following would be most likely to be considered an example of a primary group member?
your best friend in high school
How do sociologists distinguish a group from a crowd?
A crowd doesn't necessarily feel a shared identity.
Which of the following is a characteristic of a bureaucracy?
ALL OF THE ABOVE (formal organization, a division of labor, written rules)
Which of the following is the best example of an aggregate?
People who go to the mall
Which of the following is NOT a group in the sociological sense?
The audience at a Broadway show
A collection of people who do not have lasting social relations, but who share a physical location, is called a/an:
aggregate
What is Durkheim's term for a state of normlessness?
anomie
Emile Durkheim worried that, in an increasingly fragmented modern world, individuals would feel less and less connected to groups, which would lead to:
anomie or normlessness
All left-handed people in the United States would be classified as a(n):
category
Activists sometimes advocate living "off the grid," which, in its simplest form, means living without buying electricity and water from utility companies. However they also admit that living off the grid is harder and harder, as there simply isn't enough affordable land in places where it would be feasible to do so, which means that most of America has to:
deal with bureaucracies
Secondary groups cannot be geographically dispersed.
false
The sense of solidarity, or team spirit, that an individual feels toward their group is called:
group cohesion
The Asch experiment, which found that most people gave incorrect answers to factual questions when a group of people endorsed those answers beforehand, illustrates the concept of:
group conformity
The Solomon Asch experiment, in which a group of subjects were asked to compare the lengths of lines, demonstrated that:
groups have great power to induce conformity
The tendency to enforce a high degree of conformity among members that creates a demand for unanimous agreement is called:
groupthink
According to Max Weber, a bureaucracy:
has a clear hierarchy
Which of the following is NOT true about group dynamics?
in a group of four, there are four different relationships
A group that one identifies with and feels loyalty toward is called a/an?
in-group
How have social networking websites affected social groups?
they help people make the most of both primary and secondary groups.
According to Max Weber's typology of power, what type of authority is wielded by a king?
traditional authority
A triad is slightly more stable than a dyad.
true
According to Emile Durkheim, all of the social groups to which an individual is connected impose norms, which place limits on her actions.
true
