Exam 7: Crime and Deviance

Internet commerce is likely to decrease in the future since well-educated people with high incomes are reluctant to purchase goods over the Internet.

Your sociology professor asked you to write a short paragraph about the relationship between primary and secondary groups.Which statement is most likely to appear in your short essay?

Scott has been recently hired to manage the IT department for the school board.During his first month he notices that a large number of the computer technicians tend to take over an hour and a half for lunch,but they also work later to make up for the extended lunch break.At the monthly meeting,Scott tells the workers that he is just "following the rules" when he insists they can only take one hour for lunch.What process does this exhibit?

What term denotes a collection of people who are walking through a city park on a Sunday afternoon in July?

What term did sociologist Charles H.Cooley use to describe a small,less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face,emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time?

An organization's informal structure comprises aspects of participants' day-to-day activities and interactions that ignore or bypass official rules and procedures.

When Bob and Carrie get home and go to their daughter's room to say goodnight,what kind of interaction group do they form in her bedroom?

Umar is desperately in need of employment and asks you for help in finding a job.According to the text,what should you advise him to do?

Why would it be so difficult to replicate the research by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram today?

How do triads differ from dyads?

List and describe the formal characteristics of bureaucratic organizations as set forth by Max Weber.Compare the formal characteristics of bureaucracy with the major shortcomings of contemporary bureaucracies.Give specific examples from your own experience.

What term best describes a group that establishes boundaries to separate itself from others?

Suppose a discussion takes place in your sociology class about the relationship between change and bureaucracy.Which of the following is most likely to be noted about this relationship?

Define the concept of conformity and provide an example.

Which sociologist set forth the formal characteristics of bureaucratic organizations?

What kind of division of labour does a bureaucracy have?

Who coined the terms ingroup and outgroup to describe people's feelings toward members of their own and other groups?