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.Management Sciences
Category: Social Groups
In primary groups social contacts are____________?
A. formal
B. informal
C. Social
D. None of these
Over all, new management strategies over the past decade have emphasized all of the following except____________?
A. less hierarchy and less authoritarianism
B. more worker participation in decision making
C. self-managed teams
D. larger work groups
In-groups and out-groups_______________?
A. can be thought of as “we-groups” and “they -groups ” respectively
B. highlight the importance of family ties
C. are almost always based on territory (e.g. a neighborhood or nation-state)
D. are easily bridged by those who wish to share the other groups identity
Close friends who have known each other since childhood would be an example of a (n)_______________?
A. Primary group
B. secondary group
C. out-groups
D. formal organizations
Which of the following is NOT a function of a primary group ?
A. socialization
B. meeting important personal needs
C. social control
D. accomplishing a specific practical purpose
What term describes ties between individuals established through marriage or blood ?
A. family
B. kinship
C. network
D. tribe
Secondary groups are judged by them ?
A. Sociability
B. Performance
C. Emotional satisfaction
D. None of these
Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?
A. Charles Horton Cooley
B. Emile Durkheim
C. William I. Thomas
D. William Graham Sumner
The groups in which we come to know people intimately as individual personalities are called______________?
A. Primary groups
B. Secondary groups
C. Tertiary groups
D. None of these
The shift from custodial to joint parenthood after divorce means that_______________?
A. fathers are more likely to be absent from their children’s lives
B. one parent has total responsibility for the child’s welfare and socialization
C. both parents are expected to co-operate in the continued care of their children
D. parents must provide for all of their children in equal measure
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