Exam 21: Networks, Groups, and Bureaucracies

John told the teacher about how the boys were teasing one of the girls mercilessly at recess.According to the text,why might John have spoken out about the event when none of the other boys dared to?

Adam has an authoritarian leadership style.When members of his work team were asked to submit an evaluation of Adam,what would they most likely say about him?

What are the four main criticisms that sociologists have levelled against bureaucracies?

What is exemplified by a person who is less likely to help someone because there are a lot of people present?

Briefly explain Stanley Milgram's experiment.How would you have acted if you were one of the experimental subjects? Why?

Which term is defined as a secondary group designed to achieve explicit objectives?

What characteristics of bureaucracies did the Hawthorne studies reveal?

Discuss the sociological explanations for the origins of evil.Use genocide or war as your example.

Research shows that there are only about six degrees of separation between us and anyone else in Canada.

Gavin is an avid social media user,and decides 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?

According to Ferdinand Tönnies,what is the difference between a community and a society?

A president of a large corporation sends out an email memo to initiate some corporate cultural change,but after six months is frustrated with the lack of results.Why might this be the case?

According to the text,what does the term laissez-faire translate to in English?

Justine met with her four friends for lunch.Her friends ordered wine spritzers,but Justine did not.If Justine had ordered a spritzer simply because her friends had,what would this be an example of?

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

Conformity ensures group cohesion.

When are the dangers of groupthink the greatest?

Sandra needs help getting a job.According to Mark Granovetter,who of the following is most likely to be able to offer assistance?

On January 28,1986,the space shuttle Challenger exploded after launch.An investigation later determined that safety warnings about fuel seals leaking had been ignored by NASA administrators and seal manufacturers.What is the term for this kind of corporate decision making?

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