Exam 21: Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies

There is a meeting next week for people planning to sell their houses. Which of the following is this a meeting for?

According to Ferdinand Tönnies, what does a society consist of?

Members of the running group the Miramichi River Runners all think of themselves as runners, whatever their competitive ability. What are these runners, as a class of people?

According to the text, we live in a small world. What is behind this assertion?

When the work of killing people is subjected to a bureaucratic division of labour, what is the consequence?

Donna worked in a large factory sewing collars on blouses day after day. In order to decrease the monotony, she treated it as a game-trying to exceed her output from the previous day. A co-worker took her aside and told her to stop, or management would increase everyone's quota. What does this action demonstrate?

In his research, Mark Granovetter found that strong ties are more important than weak ties when trying to find a job.

Based on the Robber's Cave Study (Sherif, Harvey, White, Hood, and Sherif, 1988 [1961])-develop a way of deconstructing barriers between Muslim and Jewish children from the war-torn Middle East.

Structures of authority tend to result in people rebelling and being disobedient.

According to the text, in the early agricultural era, how many farmers did it take to support one nonfarmer?

What mode of production characterizes post industrial societies?

Discuss the three types of leadership outlined in the text.

Zi needs a favour from Miguel, but she does not know Miguel. However, she knows Elena, who knows Miguel. Therefore, Zi calls Elena and asks her to ask Miguel if he can offer assistance. What social relationship is Zi using to obtain assistance?

What does the text call a group composed of people whom an individual uses in order to evaluate his or her situation or conduct?

If you work as a technician in a lab where they are sequencing the DNA for the gene of a pig, what type of society do you live in?

If you live in a small village next to a large cornfield and your job is to fashion hand tools, what kind of society do you live in?

Who conducted the original research on degrees of separation in social networks?

During the Vietnam War, American soldiers massacred 504 unarmed civilians in a village called My Lai. What dynamic helps explain the cause of this calamity?

In bureaucracies, bigger is not always better. Which of the following statements helps to explain why?

"It is always possible to say no, even to the worst tyrant" is a remark attributed to whom?