Sociology Questions
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__________ make all major group decisions and assign tasks to members.
Neha works as a teacher in a school that uses teachers' attendance and punctuality to measure their performance. Gradually, these two criteria became more important for performance measurement than results and teaching methodologies. This shift illustrates:
Which of the following statements is true of the organizational structure in the United States?
Examples of __________ groups include schools, churches, and corporations.
Fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life - jobs, education, marriage. In early 1970s, began campain for ERA to the constitution. (It did not pass)
Founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and George Houser. Helped end segregation in restaurants, theaters, and other public places in major cities. Freedom Riders.
Started by MLK and 60 other ministers. Prepared African Americans for struggle of equal rights. Showed civil rights activists how to prepare themselves for violent attacks, how to choose issues to protest, and how to organize people for support.
A group composed of three members is referred to as a:
The family, religion, education, the economy, the government, mass media, sports, science and medicine, and the military are all examples of:
The methods and tools that are available for acquiring the basic needs of daily life are referred to as:
__________ emphasize that social structure is essential because it creates order and predictability in a society. Social structure is also important for our human development.
__________ involves the application of scientific knowledge to the technology of production, thus making it possible for machines to do the work previously done by people or animals.
According to sociologist Erving Goffman, ___________ refers to the strategies we use to rescue our performance when we experience a potential or actual embarrassing situation.
Which of the following is NOT one of the ideal-type characteristics of bureaucratic organizations, as specified by Max Weber?
__________ is the complex framework of societal institutions (such as the economy, politics, and religion) and the social practices (such as rules and social roles) that make up a society and that organize and establish limits on people's behavior.
A __________ is a set of organized beliefs and rules that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs.
A(n) __________ is defined as a set of behavioral expectations associated with a given status. For example, a carpenter (employee) hired to remodel a kitchen is not expected to sit down uninvited and join the family (employer) for dinner.
Jenny and Amanda, a couple, live together and are not married yet. They are an example of a(n):