Student Quiz: Chapter 5 | Elements of Sociology, Second Edition | Higher Education

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Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 5

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Question 1:

Status ________.
a) is the recognized social position that an individual occupies
b) contributes to the individual's social identity by imposing responsibilities and expectations
c) is a role an individual performs
d) Both a and b.

Question 2:

In Canadian society, status hierarchy ranks ________.
a) male over female
b) white over black or brown
c) elite over middle- and working-class
d) All of the above.

Question 3:

Technocracy refers to ________.
a) a new technological aristocracy
b) a technological bureaucracy
c) the division of technological labour
d) All of the above.

Question 4:

The team approach ________.
a) utilizes the idea that workers can be involved in several stages of the manufacturing process
b) generates a greater sense of product ownership
c) incorporates worker input
d) All of the above.

Question 5:

Institutionalized oppression occurs when ________.
a) oppression is practiced by an organization
b) covert coercion is used to oppress
c) oppression has become embedded in the everyday workings of social life
d) practices can only be performed in the manner devised by the organization

Question 6:

The main types of organizations are ________.
a) coercive
b) normative
c) utilitarian
d) All of the above.

Question 7:

A description of role exit would be ________.
a) disengaging from a central role and attempting to establish a new one
b) a conflict between roles
c) trying to reconcile expectations from two different roles
d) All of the above.

Question 8:

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels theorized that bureaucracy came out of ________.
a) religion
b) state formation
c) commerce
d) All of the above.

Question 9:

________ status signifies the status that dominates all other statuses.
a) Ascribed
b) Achieved
c) Master
d) Sachem

Question 10:

'Master status' is another term for the phrase 'master of the house'.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

Marginalization is the process by which groups are assigned categories that set them at the margins of the dominant society.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

A culture based on egalitarianism is one based on the hierarchical ranking of individuals.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Organizational principles are based on our knowledge of the world, which is informed by our cosmology.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

The rationalizing principles of McDonalds are coming to dominate more sectors of not only American society, but the rest of the world.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Social movements are sustained and organized collective efforts to generate social change.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Canadian society is becoming more reliant on coercive and utilitarian types of organization.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Complex systems are spontaneous, self-organizing systems that interact with their environment.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

A chartered accountant is an ascribed status.
a) True
b) False