Sociology 101

Mark Granovetter has argued that the people you know best are likely to possess only information you already have, which is why he argued that, especially for finding employment, it is advantageous to have:

more casual acquaintances who are connected to different social networks.

What sort of leadership style is typically expected of women in contemporary society?

expressive leadership

What type of group provides most of our emotional satisfaction?

primary groups

Although individuals always feel loyalty toward their in-group, under what circumstances would this loyalty be particularly strong?

when the differences between the in-group and the out-group are sharply defined

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.

When people attend high school class reunions, they often compare their own personal and professional successes and failures to those of their former classmates. This means that classmates are a(n):

reference group