Exam 6: Formal Organizations: With Emphasis on Industrial Food

The family, __________, introduces us to food and that introduction shapes our related tastes and expectations about food.

A perfectly rational organization is a(n)

A McDonald's manager has authority over employees only when they are on the time clock. This practice reflects which one of the following features of bureaucracy?

Sociologists classify formal organizations as

A student writes, "At my place of work, sales staff is rewarded according to a point system. When a customer applies for and is accepted for a store credit card, the salesperson receives 1,000 points." The student is writing about

An estimated 3 percent of plastic bags used to carry home groceries and other items end up in creeks, rivers, lakes, and oceans where ducks, turtles, and other wildlife choke on the plastic debris that they mistake for food. Sociologists call this situation

Imagine you were called into an organization and asked to identify its strengths and weaknesses. What concepts discussed in Chapter 6 could you use to frame an analysis?

___________ draw in people seeking material gain in the form of pay, health benefits, or a new status.

McDonald's and the products it sells are part of a global-scale food chain involving hundreds of thousands of suppliers who grow, raise, and manufacture products. McDonald's is part of the

The 100,000+ members of the "Slow Food" organization give time and effort to address problems associated with the industrial food system. This organization would best be classified as a(n)

The 12 transnational corporations that are global leaders in the industrial food system have a combined revenue of $548.9 billion. There are only _________ countries in the world with a gross national product that exceeds this amount.

Employers that specify exactly how workers should look, behave, and speak are contributing to

In her book In the Age of the Smart Machine , Zuboff distinguished between work environments that promote trained incapacity and those that promote

From a sociological point of view, a formal organization is

From a sociological perspective, formal organizations

A chemist working for a large corporation has the training to design a pesticide, but he or she is not trained to consider the abilities and limitations of the consumers who use it. This situation speaks to the problems associated with

__________________ is a state in which human life is dominated by the forces of human inventions.

According to the Pizza Hut Web site, the company needs a herd of 250,000 dairy cows producing at full capacity 365 days a year to fill the company's demand for cheese toppings. This view of cows reflects __________ action.

A hospital advertises a heart procedure that allows patients to return to work in two weeks instead of the standard six weeks following surgery. This use of numerical indicators to allow patients to evaluate the speediest recovery time represents which dimension of McDonaldization?

Humans have a moral obligation to treat animals with kindness and empathy, and when "we no longer recognize the animals in a factory farm as living creatures capable of feeling pain and fear…we debase ourselves." This statement indicates that treatment of animals should be