Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

Social Roles, Interaction, and Organization
. What is the term used to describe a society based on equality?

. Which factor led to the hashtag #MeToo being first tweeted in 2017?

. Which term is frequently used as a euphemism for firing workers and cutting jobs in an effort to reduce costs and become efficient?

. The slow procedures associated with acquiring and dispensing bureaucratic information can be very cumbersome and sometimes referred to as what?

. 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?

. Which of the following is an example of a status?

. Organizations that are constantly asking themselves "are we reflecting our values?" is governed by which of the following?

. In terms of social role and status, one's professional position is _________.

. 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"?

. What is the definition of status inconsistency?

. In small-group settings, statuses can be a valuable way to establish the pecking order.

. Gun ownership is a compensation mechanism for the white males who perceive themselves as diminished, and expendable.

. Baker developed labelling theory to explain the positive effects a label can have when applied to a marginalized group.

. According to Ebaugh (1988), who wrote about ex-nuns, ex-priests, ex-convicts, and recovering alcoholics, role exit involves shifting your master status

. In Canadian society, we rank male over female, white over black, upper class over working class, and heterosexual over homosexual.

. Role conflict occurs when a person is forced to reconcile incompatible expectations generated from two or more statuses that he or she holds.

. Changes in the workplace such as elimination of jobs, outsourcing, automation caused a serious status inconsistency in male white Christian workers in America.

. Role strain develops when there is a conflict between roles within a role set of a particular status.

. The role set comprises all of the roles that are attached to a particular status.

. The Weber theorem includes the concept of definition of the situation.

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