Deck 8: Groups

Question 1

Fill in the blanks: A civil society is a society consisting of (A) of (B).

A) (A) is 'large network' and (B) is 'inter-group interactions'
B) (A) is 'a safety net' and (B) is 'non-profit organizations'
C) (A) is 'a cohesive web' and (B) is 'voluntary associations'

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Group affiliations can be assigned in three different ways. What is one of these ways?

A) association
B) identification
C) cooperation

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Group affiliation can be conceptualized as having three subdimensions. Which subdimension does the concept of 'group membership' fit best?

A) objective affiliation
B) participation
C) subjective identification

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When two people from the same group marry, this is called:

A) exogamy
B) endogamy
C) intermarriage

Question 5

What is true about 'group segregation'?

A) it is a common pattern, a universal stylized fact
B) it is an indicator of strong intergroup cohesion
C) it has been found for marriage only

Question 6

Imagine a network constisting of 32 people. There are 20 bonding ties, and 5 bridging ties. What is the group segregation index of this network?

A) 0.20
B) 0.50
C) 0.80

Question 7

Which of the following determines the opportunity to meeting in- and out-group members?

A) group size
B) transitivity
C) third party effects

Question 8

Imagine the following situation: Amir and Emma are friends. Amir and Emma dislike Dany. What would you say is true about the network structure?

A) it is a 'balanced' network
B) it is an 'unbalanced' network
C) it is a small world network

Question 9

Studies which reveal that arbitrary created groups which have no interaction between members already reveal in-group favoritism are called:

A) conformity experiments
B) group threat theory
C) minimal group paradigm

Question 10

What was a key findings of the Robbers Cave Experiment?

A) even in the absence of face-to-face interactions, children have more positive in-group sentiments
B) when superordinate goals were introduced, intergroup conflicts diminished
C) even after introducing competitive conditions, friendly relations between the two groups persisted

Question 11

Imagine the following network consisting of 200 Muslims and 100 Christians. Within the Muslim population, there are 150 endogamous marriages. For Christians, this is 50. All other marriages are exogenous. Calculate the observed group segregation index.

A) 0.33
B) 0.67
C) 0.75

Question 12

Imagine being asked to calculate the ethnic group segregation index for all members of a social media website. Mysteriously, all data for women are missing. Would you say this affects the reliability, the internal validity or the external validity?

A) reliability
B) internal validity
C) external validity