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

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

Through our social networks, we are linked to all of the following EXCEPT:

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?

Ben has a new job and admires his new boss, Ray, because he is intelligent, aggressive, honest, and (most importantly) successful. Ray is most likely part of Ben's reference group.

Touching, embracing, and kissing are indicators of personal distance.

Compare and contrast ascribed, achieved, and master statuses. Provide an example of each.

It is easy for individuals to maintain morals and values when working in an extremely large organization.

Which of the following is an ascribed status?

After experiencing combat, many veterans experience internal disorder, conflict, and a sense of normlessness because of the chaos created by war. Émile Durkheim would say that they are feeling ______.

The amount of personal space an individual needs to feel comfortable varies by cultural setting.

The feelings we often have for members of out-groups can result in prejudice and ethnocentrism.

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

Role strain is the tension between roles within one status.

Being a guitarist in a band is an achieved status.

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

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

Briefly describe the informal structure of an organization of which you are a member (e.g., your school, workplace, or religious organization).

Gender and ethnicity are examples of achieved statuses.

Roman's fellow factory workers are considered a(n) ______ group because they are a large, task-oriented group that focuses on achieving a specific goal.

After working at a local fast-food restaurant for two years, Chris becomes uninvolved and unconnected to his job. He finds his job boring and feels he will not be promoted to a better position. Chris is most likely experiencing ______.