Exam 4: From Social Interaction to Social Organizations

Which of the following best describes a social network?

Explain why computers cannot effectively translate languages except in the case of specialized vocabularies.

Steve is asked by his best friend to beat up a boy at their school whom Steve actually likes. According to the textbook, why would Steve do what his best friend asks?

Why are humans better language translators than computers?

Which of the following is a form of nonverbal communication?

Whenever Astrid goes out to the bar, she checks men's hands for a wedding ring. In sociological terms, what is she looking for?

When Weber compared traditional and charismatic organizations to bureaucracies, what did he find?

Jacqueline has lived all her life in the same apartment on the same street and has been in class with the same group of seven girls ever since kindergarten. They even all attended the same daycare in the lobby of the building they all live in. Which of the following best describes this group of friends?

Create a map of your social network. Begin by creating a list of three to five needs that you rely on social contacts to help you fulfill.

What term describes a social organization that is based on following procedures just because they have always been done that way?

During World War II, why were many ordinary people able to murder millions of Jewish, Roma, and other people?

On April 7, 1997, two players from opposing teams in a professional hockey match were involved in a fistfight. What made this fight notable was that the two players, Wayne and Keith Primeau were brothers. Outside of hockey, Wayne and Keith were (and are to this day) close friends. They did not fight because they were angry at one another. In fighting each other, they were breaking the rules of hockey, as well as the expectations that most people have of how brothers act toward one another. From a sociological point of view, they can be seen to be conforming to which of the following?

Explain why smaller innovative firms can be more competitive than established, large bureaucracies.

In the textbook, the film Mean Girls is used to illustrate some of the ways that groups function. In particular, an account is given of the conformity that exists within the many different cliques that make up the fictional high school at the centre of the film. This conformity ensures which of the following?

According to symbolic interactionists, social interaction is always a competitive struggle over resources like attention or status.

People's expectations concerning a mother's behaviour defines which of the following?

As the focus of the economy shifts from the production of goods to the production of services, fewer and fewer people are trained and paid for their skill in emotion labour. Emotion labour is an assumed standard in all occupations.

Granovetter found that weak ties are more important than strong ties in finding a job.

Simon from Manitoba is meeting his new sales manager, Leonard from British Columbia, for the first time. According to North American conventions, how far apart will they be most likely to stand at that first meeting?

Even if a structure of authority is new, questionable, and artificial, which of the following are people likely to do?