Question

Please answer all the questions below.

Q. What is not true about reference groups?

1. only provide positive performance.
2. Some people give us a sense of relative satisfaction.
3. Some give us a sense of relatively deprived.
4. People turn to them when evaluating their personal characteristics, attitudes, values, and behaviors.

Q. Which sociological perspective is most aligned with the belief that formal organizations are necessary for the proper operation of large and complex societies?

1. the structural functionalist perspective

2. the neo - conflict perspective

3.the symbolic interactionist perspective

4.the conflict perspective

Q. Which is NOT an example of the 5 basic characteristics that, according to Max Weber, make bureaucracies technically superior to other forms of organization?

1. impersonality

2. specialization and division of labor

3. informal rules, regulations, and procedures

4. hierarchical structure

Q. In primary groups, connections are not valued for what they can do for the individual member but for the relationships themselves.

True or False

Q. Thirty people are on a bus traveling to various destinations. Other than sharing seats on this bus these people have nothing in common. Such a group is best described as being a [n].

1. social group

2. clique

3.category

4.aggregate

Q. All LA dodgers fans, left-handed golfers, and other people with similar social characteristics or a common status no matter where they may be called a [n].

1. social group

2.category

3. aggregate

4.reference group

Answer 1

1)Only provide positive performance.

Reference groups are a standard of comparison which people use to evaluate their interests,abilities and so on.

2)Structural functionalist perspective

It states formal organisations are necessary for the proper functioning of the society.

3)Informal rules,regulations and procedures.

Weber stated that formal rules which are stated by the law are important in bureacracy.

4)True

primary groups focus on relationships and social bonds whereas secondary groups are impersonal.

5)Aggregate

It refers to collection or group of people who happen to be at the same place at same time.These people share same physical space of bus and is an example of aggregate.

6)Category

These are the social characteristics that people share in common regardless of where they are.