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Chapter 5 Practice Quiz
Social Roles, Interaction, and Organization
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What is the term used to describe a society based on equality?
Totalitarianism
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Capitalism
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Authoritarianism
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Egalitarianism
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Feminism
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Which factor led to the hashtag #MeToo being first tweeted in 2017?
pay inequity in the workplace
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social stratification in the workplace
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institutional ethnography
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organizational structure and social feminism
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sexual harassment in the workplace
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Which term is frequently used as a euphemism for firing workers and cutting jobs in an effort to reduce costs and become efficient?
Formal rationalization
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Informal social movement organizations
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Public ritual
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Bureaucracy
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Red tape
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The slow procedures associated with acquiring and dispensing bureaucratic information can be very cumbersome and sometimes referred to as what?
Blue tape
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Green tape
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Red tape
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Yellow tape
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Black tape
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Which term refers to the process of disengaging from a role that has been central to one's identity, and attempting to establish a new role?
Role growth
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Role transition
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Role change
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Role divide
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Role exit
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Which of the following is an example of a status?
Mother
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Teacher
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Coach
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Guitarist
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All of the above
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Organizations that are constantly asking themselves "are we reflecting our values?" is governed by which of the following?
Formal rationalization
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Substantive rationalization
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Values rationalization
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Corporate rationalization
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Government rationalization
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In terms of social role and status, one's professional position is _________.
achieved
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evolving
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ascribed
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in transition
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ambivalent
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Which term refers to what Ritzer (2004, p. 1) called "the process by which the [rationalizing] principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world"?
Microsoftening
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McDonaldization
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Disneyfication
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Walmartitis
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Burger Kingdom
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What is the definition of status inconsistency?
It is a situation when all of the social status hierarchies line up.
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It is a situation when a person is highly ranked in one status category but not in others.
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It is when all statuses are subordinate.
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It is when all statuses are dominant.
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It is when a person has no status at all.
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In small-group settings, statuses can be a valuable way to establish the pecking order.
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Gun ownership is a compensation mechanism for the white males who perceive themselves as diminished, and expendable.
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Baker developed labelling theory to explain the positive effects a label can have when applied to a marginalized group.
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According to Ebaugh (1988), who wrote about ex-nuns, ex-priests, ex-convicts, and recovering alcoholics, role exit involves shifting your master status
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In Canadian society, we rank male over female, white over black, upper class over working class, and heterosexual over homosexual.
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Role conflict occurs when a person is forced to reconcile incompatible expectations generated from two or more statuses that he or she holds.
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Changes in the workplace such as elimination of jobs, outsourcing, automation caused a serious status inconsistency in male white Christian workers in America.
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Role strain develops when there is a conflict between roles within a role set of a particular status.
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The role set comprises all of the roles that are attached to a particular status.
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The Weber theorem includes the concept of definition of the situation.
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