Exam 5: Groups and Networks

Emma is hoping to secure an internship with an engineering firm this summer.She's talked with friends and family,but they have not been able to provide her with any helpful contacts.Emma runs into her former aerobics instructor,whom she hasn't seen in several years,and her instructor offers to put her in contact with an engineering friend of hers.This is an example of what concept?

Which categories do sociologists use to distinguish between majority groups (greater power)and minority groups (lesser power)?

Marina is a ten-year-old girl who idolizes singers like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.She compares herself to them and imitates them while singing in front of her bedroom mirror.These singers are known as Marina's:

Georg Simmel describes three basic forms of political relations a third party can assume when joining a dyad.Which was one of the roles discussed by Simmel? A third party who:

Parenting coordinators are sometimes brought in by the court to help relieve tension between divorcing parents.When a dispute arises between the parents,the parenting coordinator can step in and help moms and dads "keep the peace." The coordinator plays the role of:

The example of how real estate agents earn money by contractually maintaining or creating distance or contact between potential buyers and sellers highlights which of the following?

Summarize the Solomon Asch experiments.What did the experiments reveal about group conformity? Is it possible for an individual to break free of group influence? Why or why not?

Consider this photograph of a dyad.What features of dyads make them the most intimate social relationships? Describe two important features of dyads that change when the group becomes a triad.

Which of the following is true regarding social capital in the United States today?

Your Introduction to Sociology class is probably which of the following types of groups identified by Charles Horton Cooley?

Consider the social network in this image.Where is the weak tie in the diagram (between which two individuals)? How could this weak tie benefit people in the network? Create examples using the names of people in the diagram.In your own words,summarize "the strength of weak ties."

A married couple and their firstborn child are a type of group known as:

In hopes of earning a few dollars on investments they no longer use or want,some people take their household items to consignment shops,while other people sell their items on eBay.Which method of selling can be argued to have more structural holes?

When your lecture class in which only the professor was speaking breaks off into ten small groups of five students each,it has switched from being ________ to being ________.

When a single parent marries (or remarries),issues such as divided loyalties,the right to discipline,favoritism,and financial responsibility can prove to be volatile.Peggy,a single mom who has had sole custody of her 12-year-old daughter Sarah for ten years,recently married Tom.Tom has never been married and doesn't have any children.Provide examples of each of the three basic forms of relations (mediator,tertius gaudens,and divide et impera)that could emerge in this newly formed triad.

You have six friends over to your apartment for dinner and drinks.Three of the friends are discussing Einstein's theory of relativity,while the other three are talking about the World Cup.According to Georg Simmel,is this a party yet?

Compare and contrast the terms organizational culture and organizational structure.Discuss two points of similarity (compare)and two points of difference (contrast).

A process by which organizations face the same conditions,and ultimately tend to end up like each other,is known as:

Linda is a U.S.lawyer devoted to improving privacy rights in the digital age.According to the "right to be forgotten," predict the most likely outcome of her work:

Sociologist Georg Simmel (1950)argues that "size matters" in a group primarily because the number of people in a group determines: