Sociology: Chapter 5 Review
Charles Horton Cooley referred to a small social group whose members share personal and enduring relationships as?
A primary group.
___ is the term for group leadership that emphasizes the completion of tasks?
Instrumental Leadership.
The term ___ was used by Robert Michels to refer to the rule of the many by the few?
Iron law of oligarchy.
A secondary group is a social group that?
Is impersonal and engages in some specific activity.
___ downplay their own power, letting the group function or more or less on its own?
Laissez-faire leaders.
The concept "McDonaldization" of society refers to?
McDonald's organizational principles moving to dominate all of society.
Stanley Milgram's research, in which subjects used a "shock generator," showed ___?
People are surprisingly likely to follow the orders of not only real authority figures but also groups of ordinary individual.
The term oligarchy means?
Rule of the many by the few.
Assume you are one of many people assembled at a university graduation ceremony. The term that BEST describes this gathering is a?
Secondary group.
The ___ is every society's MOST important primary group?
The family.
___ illustrated the operation of "groupthink"?
When group members seek agreement that closes off other points of view.
The ___ style takes charge of making decisions and makes sure people do what they are told?
Authoritarian Leadership.
The word ___ is the correct sociological term for all people with a common status, such as "college students"?
Category.
A temporary, loosely formed collection of people who may or may not interact is a?
Crowd.
___ refers to group leadership that emphasizes collective well-being?
Expressive Leadership.
Solomon Asch's research, in which subjects were asked to match lines, showed that ___?
Group membership has the power to generate conformity.
