06 Groups and Societies: Understanding Our Environment

01

What do sociologists call two or more people who regularly interact and feel some sense of solidarity or common identity?

a dyad

an interactive group

a crowd

a social group
02

Cooley referred to small groups characterized by warm, informal, and long-lasting interaction as:

close groups.

primary groups.

emotive groups.

secondary groups.
03

Which of the following is one of the reasons Cooley referred to some groups as “primary groups?”

They are the first kind of group we experience.

They are formed during primary school.

They provide for our material needs.

They provide our main opportunity for commodity exchanges.
04

__________ groups are formal, emotionally cool and often temporary groups.

Close

Primary

Emotive

Secondary
05

You have been invited to speak at your university’s commencement ceremonies. You would be speaking to a __________ group.

close

bored

primary

secondary
06

Apply Cooley’s criteria and identify the best example of a primary group.

A PTA meeting

A corporate board meeting

A family gathering for Christmas

A meeting of the class of 1977
07

A social group to which individuals belong and toward which they feel pride and loyalty is referred to as a/an:

in-group.

reference group.

out-group.

subculture.
08

A social group toward which we feel disdain and perhaps hostility is referred to as a/an:

in-group.

reference group.

out-group.

subculture.
09

When a person studies the way the members of the local country club act, imitates them and judges his/her behavior in comparison to theirs, the country club may be described as a/an:

outsider group.

reference group.

authority group.

emulation group.
10

What is the sociological term for a social group with two members?

A pair

A triad

A couple

A dyad
11

A triad is:

a pyramidal organization.

a group with three members.

an unstable social group.

Simmel's term for a trial marriage.
12

You have joined a group where the leader focuses on the accomplishment of goals. Your group leader is providing __________ leadership.

primary group

secondary group

autocratic

democratic
13

You have been asked to lead a group that needs to learn how to make collective decisions on an egalitarian basis. Which leadership style would you use?

Autocratic

Laissez-faire

Democratic

Bureaucratic
14

__________leaders tend to downplay their position and power, allowing the group to function more or less on its own.

Autocratic

Laissez-faire

Democratic

Bureaucratic
15

Which of the following best reflects the significance of Asch’s research on group conformity?

The demonstration of how much ability groups have to affect behavior.

The demonstration of how indecisive college students are.

The demonstration of how confusing a set of vertical lines can be.

The extent to which the subjects were willing to openly defy the rest of the group.
16

Which of the following reflects a “groupthink” dynamic?

A group shares information widely and makes an excellent community policy recommendation.

A group leader makes a decision without consulting anyone, and the decision is a bad one.

A group seeks consensus, but makes poor decisions because the members are unwilling to threaten the group’s solidarity.

A group seeks opinion differences, and as a result makes a poor policy recommendation.
17

What is the sociological term for the tendency of highly cohesive groups to make poor decisions because the members are unwilling to threaten the group’s solidarity?

conformist cognizance

doublethink

groupthink

tunnel vision
18

You are linked by social ties to persons with whom you occasionally interact and to with whom you have little sense of collective identity. What is the sociological term for these linkages?

lineage

structural web

social structure

social network
19

A large secondary group that is explicitly designed to accomplish specific tasks by means of an elaborate internal division of labor is referred to as:

a social organization.

a normative organization.

a formal organization.

a business.
20

________________ are formal organizations that are organized into a hierarchy of smaller departments.

Bureaucracies

Small groups

Social networks

Small businesses

06 Groups and Societies: Understanding Our Environment

What do sociologists call two or more people who regularly interact and feel some sense of solidarity or common identity?

Cooley referred to small groups characterized by warm, informal, and long-lasting interaction as:

Which of the following is one of the reasons Cooley referred to some groups as “primary groups?”

__________ groups are formal, emotionally cool and often temporary groups.

You have been invited to speak at your university’s commencement ceremonies. You would be speaking to a __________ group.

Apply Cooley’s criteria and identify the best example of a primary group.

A social group to which individuals belong and toward which they feel pride and loyalty is referred to as a/an:

A social group toward which we feel disdain and perhaps hostility is referred to as a/an:

When a person studies the way the members of the local country club act, imitates them and judges his/her behavior in comparison to theirs, the country club may be described as a/an:

What is the sociological term for a social group with two members?

A triad is:

You have joined a group where the leader focuses on the accomplishment of goals. Your group leader is providing __________ leadership.

You have been asked to lead a group that needs to learn how to make collective decisions on an egalitarian basis. Which leadership style would you use?

__________leaders tend to downplay their position and power, allowing the group to function more or less on its own.

Which of the following best reflects the significance of Asch’s research on group conformity?

Which of the following reflects a “groupthink” dynamic?

What is the sociological term for the tendency of highly cohesive groups to make poor decisions because the members are unwilling to threaten the group’s solidarity?

You are linked by social ties to persons with whom you occasionally interact and to with whom you have little sense of collective identity. What is the sociological term for these linkages?

A large secondary group that is explicitly designed to accomplish specific tasks by means of an elaborate internal division of labor is referred to as:

________________ are formal organizations that are organized into a hierarchy of smaller departments.