Exam 6: Social Collectivities: Groups to Societies

Bureaucracies sometimes treat clients as standard cases and personnel as cogs in a giant machine.This is an example of ____.

Societies in which people live by searching for wild plants and hunting wild animals are called:

The relationship between people and nature is the most basic determinant of how societies are ____,and therefore how people's choices are constrained.

Describe the original "Hawthorne" experiment,and the theoretical lesson that sociologists have taken from its results.

The tendency in bureaucracies for power to become concentrated in the hands of a few is called ____.

When Weber compared traditional and charismatic organizations to bureaucracies,he found:

Group loyalty is often more powerful than romantic love.

Economic,political,cultural and other factors that lie outside an organization and affect the way it works are called:

We develop shared ideas or "norms of solidarity" about how we should behave toward ____ to sustain relationships.

Robert Brym talks about the Holocaust.To answer the question of why more people did not resist the Nazis and why ordinary German citizens could support this endeavor,he considers:

The most elementary network form is the triad,a social relationship between three nodes or social units.

The proportion of Jews killed during WWII was highest:

Construct your own essay question drawing on relevant course materials for your answer.Points will be awarded for both the question and answer.

What does oligarchy mean?

Define social category.

Societies in which most workers are employed in the service sector and computers spur substantial increases in the division of labor and productivity are called:

Researchers have identified six stages of human evolution,each characterized by a shift in the relationship between:

A group with members who have only a passing acquaintance with one another is a:

Which of the following is a large impersonal organization composed of many clearly defined positions arranged in a hierarchy?

Comparing the flat network structure with the traditional bureaucratic structure,we note: