Category: Social Groups

A. women have become less economically dependent
B. a reduction in the stigma attached to divorce
C. marriage is seen in terms of personal satisfaction
D. increased acceptance of same-sex relationships

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five

A. bureaucracies
B. formal organizations
C. informal organizations
D. task hierarchies

A. social resistance to cohabitation
B. the trend towards later marriages
C. the high rate of divorce
D. an ageing population with a growing number of households made up of widows/widowers

A. They are membership groups
B. They provide comparative but not normative functions
C. Those which do not match membership groups may create feelings of relative deprivation
D. They are groups to which we refer in our conversations

A. The social support and feedback of others hinders us as we try to confront difficulties
B. Accidents alcoholism psychiatric disorders tuberculosis and even death rates are higher among people who live with more than seven others in a group living situation
C. The most effective strategy for undergraduate success is to abstain from group interaction because it slows down one’s individual learning process
D. Support groups have been found to add an average of 18 months to the lives of women in advanced stages of cancer

A. coercive organizations
B. total institutions
C. utilitarian organizations
D. voluntary organizations

A. Impersonal relations
B. Contract
C. Modern ideas
D. None of these

A. the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census
B. a felt sense of group of group membership on basis of religion language or history
C. the imposition of a racial label on a minority by a powerful majority
D. the fragmented and pluralistic nature of ethnicity

A. Primary group
B. Secondary group
C. Both groups
D. None of these