Exam 7: Crime and Deviance

The experimenter in Stanley Milgram's experiment indicated that the teacher should give increasingly painful shocks.What percentage of the teachers administered shocks all the way to the maximum of 450 volts?

Family and close friends are examples of what?

Max Weber believed that using a bureaucratic approach was an inefficient way to run a large organization.

On the final exam,Willis was asked to define groupthink.What should he write?

The code of conduct (or student responsibilities)in your institution's calendar is an example of what characteristic of bureaucracy?

In Stanley Milgram's experiment,what role did the real participants end up in?

What process involves maintaining or changing behaviour to comply with the norms established by a society,subculture,or other group?

Ritzer argues that McDonald's restaurants embody the principles of rationalization and establish a model that is emulated by many other organizations.

Several employees at a local printing company routinely take 1.5-hour lunch breaks rather than the 50 minutes stated in their contract.This is an example of what characteristic of bureaucracy?

When you approach the drive-through window,scan the standard menu,and hear a voice through the speaker say,"Welcome to [name of restaurant].How can I help you today?" which element of McDonaldization is at work?

What is NOT a feature of secondary groups?

Who demonstrated the power that groups have to produce conformity among members?

Which of the following is a key advantage of networks over other organizational forms?

What is the main ethical concern of Stanley Milgram's research on obedience?

According to several research studies,what may lead group members to say they see something that is contradictory to what they are actually seeing or to do something they would otherwise be unwilling to do?

What characteristics of bureaucracies did the Hawthorne studies reveal?

If we accept Stanley Milgram's research findings,what would we conclude about obedience to authority?

According to the text,what type of group dynamic resulted in the tragic 2010 explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico?

If Alex is friends with Ben,and Ben is dating Carrie,what kind of network may be formed?

Laurie struggles to fit in with the popular girls at her school.What kind of group is Laurie in?