Exam 7: Crime and Deviance

Monica has been employed by the local police department for 22 years as an exhibits clerk.She has seen most of the police officers during that time as they come in to sign out their exhibits for court.What type of social group do Monica and these officers form?

Devon prevents his personal feelings from interfering with organizational decisions.What formal characteristic of bureaucracies does this refer to?

The ability to coordinate network activities has been weak compared to bureaucratic organization.

According to Pryor and McKinney's research,what happened when the trainers were led to believe that sexual harassment was condoned?

What did Weber assert could establish authority within an organization and offer clear-cut standards for determining satisfactory performance?

Max Weber's research preoccupation with bureaucracies focused on the behaviour of worker networks and triads.

Recently,there has been an increase in the number of babies born via cesarean section rather than natural birth.What can this increase be attributed to?

Formal organizations are primary groups,but they also contain many secondary groups within them.

What characteristic of bureaucracy is demonstrated in the standardized test scores for admission to graduate and professional schools across North America?

Pressure to conform is especially strong in large groups.

Define groupthink and provide a real-life example of this process.Include a discussion of prior conditions,symptoms,and defective decision making.

What is epidemiology and why is the study of networks important to epidemiologists?

What is a potential consequence of Phyllis belonging to a monthly book club,the parent-teacher association at her son's school,and the safety committee at her work?

Suppose a person does not belong and perhaps even feels a sense of competitiveness or hostility toward others.What kind of group is this person likely a part of?

Corey is a university student who was employed for the summer at the pulp mill in his hometown.During his first week,he discovered that he could move twice as many samples from the wood chip trucks as he was required to.When he mentioned this to his co-workers,they warned him not to do it since if management noticed,work quotas would increase for all of them.Which of the Hawthorne research findings does Corey's experience demonstrate?

What happens when the rules become an end in themselves rather than a means to an end,and organizational survival becomes more important than achievement of goals?

A student told all of his friends a wrong answer for a subjective test question just before the test.The substitute teacher could find no reference to the answer in the textbook,but since 10 students in the class had put the same answer,he figured it must be right and marked it correct.What social phenomena is this an example of?

Policies that ensure supportive environments for members of disadvantaged groups are one strategy to deal with what problem of bureaucracies?

What is asymmetrical warfare? How is this being utilized by terrorists?

Patrons in a restaurant or passengers on a train are examples of what kind of group?