Exam 21: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies

Which of the following statements reflects Max Weber's perspective of bureaucracies?

If you live on a farm just outside a nearby town and you are about to harness an ox to a plow, what kind of society do you live in?

In the classic experiment on prejudice, what strategy did the researchers utilize to break down the in-group/out-group barriers between 11-year-old boys at a summer camp?

Patrizia and Saul have been married for five years, and recently adopted a seven-year-old boy from Africa. According to the text, which of the following would be true about their social relationship?

One analyst of the 2008 global financial meltdown claimed that the large investment companies had a criminogenic work environment-only a few employees were whistleblowers. How were whistleblowers able to take action?

According to the text, what might be your best job-seeking strategy?

Susannah and her two sons, Richard and Paul, form what type of a social relationship?

List the sociological factors, as outlined in the text, which contribute to the ability of humans to commit evil acts upon others.

If you were a newly hired CEO of a large Canadian corporation, how would you go about making changes to the company's traditional hierarchical organizational structure and its centralized decision making processes?

What kind of existence/lifestyle did foragers lead?

Many local women have been hired by a new telemarketing firm that is selling family vacations. It used to be that women had much more trouble than men getting hired in this town. According to the text, what shift has occurred, making the hiring practices more equitable?

What characterizes a pastoral society?

A student told all of his friends a wrong answer for a subjective test question just before the test. The teacher could find no reference to the answer in the textbook, but since 10 students in the class had put the same answer, he figured it must be right and marked it correct. Which of the following social phenomena is this an example of?

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?

In his analysis of the Glen Ridge rape case of 1989, Bernard Lefkowitz concluded that the perpetrators were adhering to the values of the community in which they were socialized. Which of the following is NOT one of the community values discussed by Lefkowitz?

Gavin is an avid social media user, and decided to investigate the social connectedness of people around the world. While in the process of analyzing a data set of instant messages composed of 40 billion conversations among 260 million people, his roommate Scott predicted the answer. Gavin was amazed when he discovered that Scott was right. What figure did Scott predict?

Which of the following was one of the significant developments of the agricultural era?

Weber tended to ignore both the informal side of bureaucracies and the role of leadership in bureaucracies.

How was a forager's mode of production related to the natural environment?

In the early 1970s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that he told participants was a study of the effect of punishment on learning. What was Milgram honestly researching?