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

List and briefly discuss two links from your micro-level networks.

All of the following are characteristics of ideal-type bureaucracy except:

Describe a norm that an ethnomethodologist could violate to learn something about social interaction. In your description, state why this norm is a good example to violate and what the ethnomethodologist might learn from the violation.

Isabella is a good student; she attends sociology class, does well in her other studies, and would never break a campus rule. Unfortunately, her brother Craig is addicted to drugs, steals from their mother, and lives on the streets. One day, Craig calls Isabella and asks her to let him stay in her dorm. Isabella knows that visitors are not allowed in the dormitory, but she wants to help her brother. According to role theorists, Isabella is feeling:

According to Durkheim, the key finding of his study on suicide is that suicide can be predicted by the:

List and briefly discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of McDonaldization. In your opinion, do you think McDonaldization is a good or a bad process?

Researchers find that words make up less than 35% of the emotional content of a message.

Dan is on a first date with a woman. They do not know each other, and Dan, an adept sociology student, wonders which of the four social distances to maintain while at the art exhibit. Which distance should Dan use? Why?