Practice Quiz: Chapter 04

. Which term refers to the process by which we coordinate or align our actions with those of others?

. Through which process do actors try to shape how others will define them?

. Who coined the phrase "definition of the situation," maintaining that "if men define their situation as real, they are real in their consequences"?

. According to Tonnies, city life would be characterized by which of the following?

. Cliques are an example of which of the following?

. The concept of the "looking glass self" is associated with which theorist?

. Dividing an introductory sociology class into male and female creates which of the following?

. Which of the following is NOT one of Weber's seven essential characteristics of bureaucracy?

. What are bureaucracies?

. Which of the following is NOT an example of a total institution?

. According to Mead, the self is made up of an "I," a "me," and a "myself."

. Role-taking and role-making are linked. There can be no role-making in the absence of role-taking.

. One or more roles are attached to every status.

. If the self is an object to which we assign meaning, roles are the names we give ourselves.

. There cannot be any gaps between the roles we play and who we understand ourselves to be.

. In playing our roles, we follow rigid, predetermined, and/or prewritten scripts.

. Sets of people with a common sense of identity are typically called categories.

. Canada and the United States are examples of totalitarian societies.

. Over the long term, bureaucracies are able to pursue strategic goals with huge amounts of wealth and power.

. Weber's model for studying forms of bureaucracy is an idealization.

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