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Chapter 10 Practice Quizzes
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According to Weber, which of the following is NOT an element of formal rationalization?
Efficiency
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Control
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Predictability
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Collectives
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Quantification
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George Ritzer draws on Weber's concept of formal rationalization in
The __________ of Society.
Disneyfication
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Walmartitis
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Microsoftening
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McDonalization
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Which of the following statements is true?
Religion was a driving force behind anti-colonial liberation movements
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Religion was a driving force behind anti-racism and anti-discrimination movements
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Religion was a driving force behind democratic reform throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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All of the answers listed are true
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None of the answers listed are true
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Which trained minister is typically considered responsible for socialized medicine in Canada?
John Porter
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Tommy Douglas
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Max Weber
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Margaret Humphreys
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Mary-Ann Kirkby
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Which of the following is an organizational ritual?
Employee of the month awards
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Charity golf tournaments
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Sponsoring local sports teams
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All of the answers listed are correct
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b and c only
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Situations we define as real become real in their consequences. This statement has become known as
the Thomas theorem
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Interaction process analysis (IPA)
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A theocracy
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An organizational theory
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The Baha'i faith is the offshoot of which religion?
Christianity
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Judaism
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Sikhism
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Islam
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Hinduism
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What did the Anabaptist movement believe?
Only males should be baptized.
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Only females should be baptized.
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It is critical to baptize children in early infancy.
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Only adults who choose to be baptized should be baptized.
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Baptism is sacrilegious.
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Weber was critical of ________
formal rationalization
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bureaucracy
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the automotive industry
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a and b only
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none of the answers listed above
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Which of the following is an Abrahamic religion?
Christianity
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Judaism
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Islam
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All of the answers listed are correct
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A and B only
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Scientific management, later known as Taylorism, was intended to discover the one best way of doing any given job.
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False
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Durkheim considered society to be organized along three principles: social class, status, and power.
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False
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While social institutions are social structures and are socially organized, social structures and social organization are subordinate concepts to social institutions.
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George Simmel is a macro-sociologist.
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The word "totem" comes from the Anishnabe word "ndotem," meaning "my clan."
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Indigenous cosmologies are rooted in the belief that all matter, both inanimate and animate, is interdependent.
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Organizational principles are based on our knowledge or understanding of the world, which is informed by our cosmology.
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Aristotle claimed that societies with a powerful king or emperor would likely have a religion with multiple gods.
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The social gospel movement exemplifies the notion of radical possibility in Christianity.
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The Hutterities have a very low fertility rate.
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False
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