Deck 4: Social Systems and Social Roles

Question 1

What conditions would justify 'role refusal' as a strategy to be used with a client?
What is the social worker's responsibility in supporting a client in role refusal? What risks can be identified with this approach?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

The efforts of an incumbent person in a role to create and maintain in others the beliefs that the incumbent wants the others to have is called

A) Impression management
B) Role making
C) Role taking
D) Role distortion

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The contrast between a perfect role performance and the performance that an incumbent actually manages is called

A) Role enactment
B) Role ideal
C) Role loss
D) Role discrepancy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When a child is told that 'nice people won't like you if you lie,' the nice people can be understood as

A) Significant others
B) A generalized other
C) A culture
D) An alter ego

Question 5

Horney's idea of neurotic striving refers to the pursuit of

A) Happiness
B) Ideal role enactment
C) The ideal partner
D) Role reciprocity

Question 6

Both general systems theory and functional theory rely upon

A) Direct empirical evidence
B) Experimental research
C) An analogy with living organisms
D) Transpersonal experience

Question 7

Which of the following could be considered an ascribed position in society?

A) Teacher
B) Mother
C) Rabbi
D) woman

Question 8

Our sense of who we are, generalized over time and situations is called our

A) Situated self
B) Actualized self
C) Thematic self
D) Ideal self

Question 9

The way that a person believes she should behave in her role as a social worker is called

A) Expectations
B) Norms
C) Beliefs
D) Conceptions

Question 10

The fundamental attribution error refers to which of the following?

A) Overemphasis on biology as an influence on behavior
B) Overreliance on history of predictive behavior
C) Insufficient attention to spiritual factors in understanding behavior
D) Overemphasis on personality as a determinant of behavior

Question 11

Discuss the relationship between core and peripheral roles. Where do you anticipate most clients will experience the most difficulty? Is there any difference in the process of trying to change these two types of roles? What factors are most significant in interventions with core roles?

Question 12

'Obliteration by incorporation' is Merton's idea that some ideas

A) Are too abstract to be useful
B) Are adopted as true before they are proven
C) Become so widespread they are no longer recognized as a theory
D) Are forgotten and replaced by newer and more exciting theories

Question 13

A young woman whose parents want her to be a missionary but who falls in love with a hip hop singer and becomes a groupie is experiencing which of the following?

A) Role loss
B) Role ambiguity
C) Intrapositional role conflict
D) Interpositional role conflict

Question 14

Describe the relationship between social positions and social roles. How does each relate to the duality of social structure and social dynamics: How can these concepts be used in conceptualizing and implementing interventions with clients?

Question 15

Describe a situation in which it would be appropriate to use 'role rehearsal' as a foundation for social work intervention. What considerations affect how and where this approach should be used?

Question 16

Both social systems theory and role theory emphasize

A) The importance of the environment
B) The importance of instincts
C) The importance of personality
D) The importance of emotions

Question 17

Discuss the implications of the primary attribution error in the assessment of client behavior. Is this concept consistent with the use of a diagnostic approach such as is found in the DSM IV TR or DSM V?

Question 18

The expectations of people in a social system regarding how a person in a specific position should behave are referred to as

A) Norms
B) Rewards
C) Roles
D) Incumbents

Question 19

Role theory is considered by most social scientists to be which of the following?

A) A focal theory
B) A middle range theory
C) A grand theory
D) A developmental theory

Question 20

When a social system has no shared sense of social expectations for behavior, the condition is called

A) Chaos
B) Entropy
C) Attributions
D) Anomie