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______is the social life between people that takes place through________such as signs, gestures, and language. |
Social interaction; Symbols |
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When a student says to a friend, " I wore a suit and tie to the job interview and asked lots of questions so that he would think I was intelligent, " this illustrates what Erving Goffman called______ |
impression management |
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The most basic unit of Human behavior is an________. ______ is the reluctance to " get involved" in an apparent _____ affecting a stranger in public. |
Act; By-stander; Emergency |
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According to the dramaturgical approach, professor who tells a colleague that she is disgusted with a particular student's behavior but remains polite, while in the presence of the student is displaying _____ behavior to her colleague. |
Back stage |
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The_____ states that if people deine situations as real, they are in their consequences. |
Thomas theorem |
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"Exposing the rules" of society to discover the unspoken assumptions that govern its social interaction is fundamental to______ |
Ethnomethodology |
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According to the zones of social space defined by Edward T. Hall, an oral examination would be conducted within _______. |
Personal Space |
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The discipline that examines how personality and behavior are influenced by social context is |
social psychology |
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Some gestures have the same meaning in all societies. T/F |
False |
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The industrial revolution accelerated with the development of ______, as an early new source of energy. |
The steam engine |
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The expansion of office work marks the growth of the economy's |
tertiary sector |
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The term oligopoly refers to |
the domination of a market by a few producers |
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Which country exemplifies a system of state capitalism? A. The united states B. Great Britain C. Australia D. Japan |
D. Japan
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The social thinker who celebrated the operation of a free-market economy was |
Adam Smith |
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The term primary labor market refers to |
Jobs that provide extensive benefits to workers. |
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What is the hypothetical economic and political system in which all members of society are social equal?
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Communism |
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Socialism is an economic system in which there is |
government control of production |
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The post-industrial economy is defined by: |
Computer technology
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As a social institution the economy: |
produces and distributes goods and services; guides patterns of consumption of goods and services; operates in a relatively predictable manner |
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The smallest possible group is a ______; where as , a _____is a three-person group |
Dyad; Triad |
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Bureaucracy tends to result in ______ or rule by the few |
Oligarchy |
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Styles of leadership may be one of three basic types |
Authoritarian Democratic Laissez-faire
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An____is an abstract description, constructed from a number of cases in order to reveal their essential characteristics |
Ideal type
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______ is the situation in which people lose control over the social world they have created |
Alienation |
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_______ leadership is the kind necessary to create harmony an solitary among the members; whereas ,________leadership is the kind necessary to organize the group in the pursuit of its goals |
Expressive ; Democratic |
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Enumerate two characteristics of formal organizations |
1 Utilitarian 2 Normative
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Social stratification is |
A system by which a society ranks categories of people in hierarchy |
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Four principles of social stratification |
individual discovery caries over from generation to generation Universal but not Variable involves not just inequality but beliefs as well |
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In the caste system the typical marriage is described as |
endogamous |
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The term meritocracy refers to social stratification based |
on personal merit |
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In 1917 the Russian Revolution transformed______, placing productive property under the control of______ |
an agrarian society; the state
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The idea that social inequality is harmful and divides society is associated with the _______ paradigm. |
Social-conflict
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Ideology refers to |
cultural beliefs that justify social stratification |
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According to Davis-Moore thesis |
the more important job must yield sufficient rewards to attract the talent necessary to perform them |
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Work involving mostly manual labor is called___________ work |
blue-collar |
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Max Weber considered an individuals social position |
economic class social status or prestige power
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Race refers to |
a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
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rigid irrational generalization about an entire category of people |
prejudice |
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refers to the belief that one racial category is innately superior |
racism |
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what is the meaning of WASP |
White Americans who support pluralism |
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Which of the following categories of Hispanics in the US is largest in terms of population size |
Mexican American |
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a category of people who as a result of their shared cultural heritage are regarded as socially distinct is called an |
Ethnic group |
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Genocide |
form of extermination
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In South Africa, blacks are a minority because they |
are singled out for unequal treatment |
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According to Thomas Sowell, West Indians in the US are about 1% of the African American population.T/F |
True |
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People of Chinese ancestry not only were the first Asian Americans to come to come to the US but they remain the largest in terms of population.T/F |
True |
