Chapter 5 Groups And Organizations: Quick Quiz
Chapter 5 Quick Quiz
- 1.A social group includes any collection of individuals.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.People are better able to meet their needs for food, shelter, and security when they work together rather than alone.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Groups ensure conformity of their members by using:
- A.
Identity control
- B.
Power of division
- C.
Internalized norms
- D.
All of the above
- 4.Because their contributions are considered so valuable, high status members of groups may earn permission from the group to break some rules. This permission is known as:
- A.
Synchronicity credit
- B.
Hypocrisy credit
- C.
Idiosyncrasy credit
- D.
Get out of jail free card
- 5.Any group that a person admires enough to use as a standard for his or her own identity can be called a:
- A.
Peer group
- B.
Reference group
- C.
Primary group
- D.
Secondary group
- 6.Blending into a faceless crowd or being lost in a bureaucratic role are examples of:
- A.
Distance
- B.
Division
- C.
Dehumanization
- D.
Deindividuation
- 7.The financial rewards of an education differ by race and gender. Which of the following statements is false?
- A.
On average, yearly income rises with each advance in education for all racial categories and for both men and women.
- B.
On average, Asian Americans receive greater financial rewards than equally educated white Americans.*
- C.
On average, it is a greater financial disadvantage to be a woman than to be a person of color.
- D.
Even among doctors and lawyers, the race and gender differences in financial compensation are significant.
- 8.A preference for homogeneity means that people are likely to want employees, friends, and marriage partners who:
- A.
Are like themselves
- B.
Have higher social status than themselves
- C.
Have unique social resources to share
- D.
Fit media images of desirability
- 9.According to Weber, which of the following is not an advantage provided by a typical bureaucracy (e.g., a work place)?
- A.
Formation of friendships
- B.
Efficiency in production
- C.
Consistency of behavior
- D.
Neutrality in decision-making
- 10.Some Western businesses have been humanized by adopting Japanese business practices. Which of the following Japanese practices has been the favorite for Western adoption?
- A.
Lifelong commitment between worker and employer
- B.
Merging of work and personal life
- C.
Bottom-up, collective decision-making
- D.
Seniority-based pay (rather than performance-based)
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