SOCIOLOGY FINAL EXAM REVIEW — 100 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

A collection of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time but share little else in common is known as a(n):

• Category

• Aggregate

• Crowd

• Group

A group to which a person belongs and feels identity is called a(n):

• Outgroup

• Reference group

• Ingroup

• Clique

A theorist who views groups as arenas of power imbalance is a:

• Functionalist

• Symbolic interactionist

• Conflict theorist

• Feminist

Leadership providing emotional support to members is:

• Instrumental

• Expressive

• Authoritarian

• Bureaucratic

The process of making unwise decisions to preserve harmony is:

• Social control

• Groupthink

• Role strain

• Alienation

An organization people join voluntarily for shared goals is:

• Utilitarian

• Normative

• Coercive

• Bureaucratic

Max Weber emphasized bureaucracy’s focus on:

• Tradition

• Rules and hierarchy

• Emotion

• Informality

Replacing traditional methods with formal rules is called:

• Bureaucratization

• Rationalization

• Modernization

• Mechanization

Michels’ “iron law of oligarchy” refers to:

• Rule by the few

• Rule by all

• Rule by consensus

• Rule by rotation

The human relations approach in bureaucracy focuses on:

• Rules

• Efficiency

• People

• Control