Exam 5: Interaction, Groups, and Organizations: Connections That Work

Using either yourself or someone you know as an example, describe a status set of an individual using at least five statuses. Which of these statuses are ascribed and which are achieved? Does this individual have a master status? Describe some corresponding roles for each of the statuses. How might this individual experience role strain? What about role conflict?

According to rational choice theory, interactions generally involve expectations of reciprocity.

What are the different ways people use their social networks? Detail at least two ways individuals develop their micro-level networks and contrast this with at least two ways individuals develop their meso-level networks.

Ethnomethodology and dramaturgy draw from symbolic interaction theory.

Which of the following is an ascribed status?

Lee promised his brother Kirby that he would watch the Cincinnati Bengals's football game with him at home. However, Lee's friend Sue won tickets on a local radio station, and she wants Lee to come to the game with her. Because Lee is torn between his role as Sue's friend and Kirby's brother, Lee is experiencing:

Which of the following is an achieved status?

An example of goal displacement is the case of Pedro Espada Jr., who pleads guilty to charges of stealing money from health care clinics he ran in the Bronx.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a group?

List and briefly discuss the characteristics of Weber's ideal-type bureaucracy.

According to the text, the belief that minorities (sexual, racial, religious, etc.) are detrimental to workplace efficiency is false because:

Gender and ethnicity are examples of achieved statuses.

In the context of foreign language acquisition, nonverbal messages are the easiest part to master.

Weber used the term "ideal-type bureaucracy" to describe a bureaucracy that would not experience the typical dysfunctions associated with bureaucracy.

Carolina's daughter wants to go to a local concert that will keep her out past curfew. Although Carolina feels that as a good mom, she should be her daughter's friend and consider her daughter's wishes, she also believes that a good mother should provide structure by maintaining rules. Carolina is experiencing:

___________________ is interaction using facial expressions, the head, eye contact, body posture, gestures, touch, walk, status symbols, and personal space.

Some companies pay millions in taxes to move their physical headquarters from one nation to another, an advantage to being a global business.

_______________ govern social contexts to let us know what is the right and proper behavior in social interaction.

The A-OK sign is an insult in Japan.

Durkheim's concept of anomie refers to a: