Exam 6: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies

List and explain four main criticisms that sociologists have levelled against bureaucracies.

In what ways does the modern workplace, which is bureaucratically organized, dehumanize the work experience? Give examples.

Celine is in charge of the trauma response team at a large university hospital. Her job is to manage large-scale medical emergencies when they occur. She often yells orders at medical staff, and anyone who challenges her during an emergency is suspended. How effective is the trauma response team likely to be at coping with large-scale medical emergencies with Celine in charge?

Selecting Common Ground is an organization that brings together Muslim, Jewish, and Christian children for summer camps. What strategy is being employed here toward breaking down in-group and out-group conflict?

Describe main characteristics of a social network, using an example.

Rennae agrees to take part in an experiment at the psychology department at her university. However, when she is asked to engage in behaviour that she believes would be harmful to another person in the study, she refuses. She bases her decision on familiarity with existing research. Whose research is it likely to be?

Kunwaktok is the female leader of a fairly non-hierarchical group of people who live in a large area abundant with animals, berries, and plants readily available for food. Based only on this information, what type of society is Kunwaktok from?

With what kind of group are people interacting when they interact with others in their minds only?

What type of group comprises members who are acquainted with one another and get together for a specific purpose, often for only a short period of time?

Beginning in the 1970s, which two countries developed bureaucratic innovations that enhanced productivity, morale, and profits?

Celine is in charge of the trauma response team at a large university hospital. Her job is to manage large-scale medical emergencies when they occur. She often yells orders at medical staff, and anyone who challenges her during an emergency is suspended. What is Celine's leadership style called?

Josh sometimes uses "divide and conquer" tactics to obtain his goals in social relationships. In which of the following relationships is he most likely to fail in such an attempt?

People with low status in a group (e.g., because of their gender or race) are less likely to dissent than are people with high status.

Doug attends a yoga class at his local community centre every Tuesday evening. What type of social group is Doug's yoga group?

What do we call secondary groups that are formed in order to achieve certain, specific objectives?

A white professor in a largely white university classroom states that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen and was largely made up by Jews as part of their plan to gain sympathy and take over the world. According to the textbook, who would be most likely to challenge the professor's views?

How are social categories different from social groups?

Which of Tönnies's conclusions about urban networks has research disproved?

What is the principal primary group in most people's lives?

Canadian coins bear an image of Elizabeth II and the inscription D.G.REGINA (by the grace of God, queen). In which type of society did this type of justification of rule become established?