Exam 7: Class and Stratification in the United States

In which of these types of groups is the participation of all members crucial to the survival of the group?

The three major styles of leadership of ingroups include____________ leadership.

The Milgram study provides evidence that obedience to even seemingly unreasonable authority may be more common than most of us would like to believe.

Cooley coined the term____________ for a larger, more specialized group in which the members engage in impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time.

Gender and racial/ethnic inequalities tend to be perpetuated in bureaucracies.

A(n)____________ is an organizational model characterized by a hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules and procedures, and impersonality in personal matters.

Within most bureaucratic organizations, there will be resistance to the iron law of oligarchy.

Which of these is an example of a coalition?

A(n)____________ is a number of people who may never have met one another but share a similar characteristic (such as education level, age, race, or gender).

Joaquin is a member of a group working on a project for his biology class. Whenever the group meets, there is conflict among several group members, and this is upsetting to the others. Joaquin is continuously trying to improve group harmony and reduce the conflict in the group. Joe would be considered the ____________ leader of the group.

In the United States, there is little support for authoritarian leadership.

In regard to Stanley Milgram's study, the text points out that____________ .

After conducting his research, Solomon Asch concluded that____________ .

Sociologist Charles H. Cooley used the term ____________ to describe a small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time.

Leaders using the____________ style of leadership are only minimally involved in decision making and encourage group members to make their own decisions.

Annette, Joshua, Sandra, and Luis are college students who met for the first time in a sociology class. They study together and pool their notes. Otherwise, they see each other only occasionally when their paths cross between classes. Sociologists would term them a(n)____________ .

The term for people with whom we have primary relationships and those in our primary groups is____________ .

____________ leadership is most appropriate when the group's purpose is to complete a task or reach a particular goal.

In government and other high-level professional organizations, individuals are more likely to advocate for their own professional opinions rather than succumb to the pressure of the group.

Goal displacement occurs when the rules of an organization become more important than achievement of the actual goals.