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| What term is used to describe people who interact with one another and think of themselves as belonging together? |
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| What is the largest and most complex group that sociologist study? |
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| Which term describes people who have similar characteristics |
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| A set of individuals who temporarily share the same physical space but do not see themselves as belonging together |
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| According To Cooley (and Earnest Seo), which are essantial to an individual's psychological well being |
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| How do sociologists refer to groups that provide a sense of identification or belonging? |
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| What are some of the consequences of in-group membership |
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| If Cory wanted a promotion to a supervisory position, mangers in his company would serve as which type of group to him? |
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| What term describes the social ties radiating out from the self, linking people together? |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a triad |
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| The continuation of the group depends on the success of the arbitrator in settling disputes |
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| Increases harmony and minimizes conflict in a group |
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| According to the author of the text and Gloria Yang, what is the key to preventing groupthink. |
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| Making sure that the results of social science research and the information gathered by media reporters is widely circulated. |
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| Accepting rules, efficiency, and practical results as the way to approach human affairs. |
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| The idea that the past is the best guide for the present is referred to as |
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| All of the following are characteristics of bureacracy, EXCEPT: |
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| A hierarchy with assignments flowing upward and accountability flowing downward |
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| Which characteristic of bureaucracy believes that the office, not the individual who holds the office, is important |
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| Dysfunctions of bureaucracies include |
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| As a worker in a arge corporation, Olivia is often unhappy. At work she feels that no one appreciates her and that the work she does is boring and repetitive. Which of the following best describes olivias situation? |
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| How do workers resist alienation |
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| According to your text, what is the alienated bureaucrat likely to do? |
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| Not do anything for the organization beyond what he or she is required to do |
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| Which of the following is true about The Peter Principle |
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| States that each employee of bureaucracy is promoted to his or her level of incompetence |
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| When does goal displacement occur |
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| When an organization adopts new goals |
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| The sociological significance of bureaucracy is that it |
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| Represents a fundamental change in the way people relate to one another. |
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| The iron law of oligarchy |
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| What is the term that describes the tendency for organizations to be dominated by a small self-perpetuating elite |
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| What does it mean to humanize a work setting |
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| Organizing a workplace so that human potential is developed rather than impeded. |
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| Which of the following reflects the views of the conflict theorists? |
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| The interests of workers and owners are fundamentally opposed and, in the final analysis, workers are always exploited. |
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| Computers in the workplace |
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| Why is deviance often seen as threatening |
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| Because it undermines the predictibility of social life |
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| Of what are frowns, gossip, and crossing people off the guest list examples of? |
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| Most negative sanctions are |
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| A court Martial where the the guilty officer is publicly stripped of his rank is an example of |
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| Differntial association theory is based on the |
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| Symbolic interactionist perspective |
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| According to differential association theory, why does someone become a deviant |
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| Because he or she learns to deviate from or conform to socieity's norms |
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| The idea that two control systems, inner and outer controls, work against our tendencies toward deviance is called... |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the ways of neutralizing deviance |
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| Which perspective stresses that deviance promotes social unity and social change |
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| According to strain theory, who gives up pursuit of success by abusing alcohol or drugs |
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| Mr. Dan lives in a neighborhood with high crimes rates and poor schools. He believes he will never make it to college. He decides to quit school and sell drugs for a local drug dealer. He is quickly making a lot of money. He buys new clothes and a new car. Mr. Dan's behavior reflects which of Mertons's deviant paths? |
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| What are crimes commited by high-status people in the course of the occupation called? |
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| __________ groups tend to be more formal and impersonal. |
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| The ______ gives us our basic orientation to life |
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| Group toward which we feel loyalty are called __________ |
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| A ________ group provides a yardstick to evaluate ourselves. |
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| A clique is a synonymous with term internal ________ |
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| A group of individuals who interact with one another on the Internet may be members of an ________ Community |
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| A __________ Is the alignment of some members of a group against others. |
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| Instrumental Leaders tend to be _______ oriented |
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| A __________ leader leads by giving orders. |
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| As group size increases, stability ________ and Intimacy ________ |
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| Groupthink refers to the collective _______ vision that groups sometimes develop. |
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| Until recently, people were immersed in a _________ of labor |
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| As with culture, a bureaucracy often differs from its ________ image. |
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| The process by which ordinary aspects of life are rationalized and efficiency comes to rules such things as food preparation is known as the __________ of society. |
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| If __________ were generally true, then organizations would not be successful. |
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| People join volunteer groups who organize on the basis of some ________ |
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| The _________ refers to how organizations come to dominated by a small, self-perpetuating elite. |
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| The conflict perspective points out that the basic relationship between workers and owners is always ________. |
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| Sociologists use the term ________ to refer to any violation of a norm. |
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| Expressions of disapproval of deviance are called _______ sanctions. |
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| Psychologists search for factors about deviance _________ of the individual. |
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| According to the Functionalists perspective, deviance promotes social __________ |
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| According to the Robert Merton, people who experience strain are likely to feel ______________ |
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