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Social Structure and Social Interaction

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 4hrs 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a social group?

a)

A number of people gathered together

b)

A group with two or more people who meet regularly and interact

c)

Two or more people

2.

Which of the following can be classified as a social group?

a)

persons at a bus stop

b)

a football team

c)

persons waiting at a concert

3.

True or false. A social group share a sense of unity recognising that they form a unit.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

A _________________ is a socially defined position in a group or in a society.

a)

status

b)

role

c)

norm

d)

value

5.

People occupy a status, but they play a _____________________.

a)

norm

b)

value

c)

symbol

d)

role

6.

All of the following are ascribed statuses except:

a)

teenager

b)

father

c)

mother

d)

captain

7.

What type of status is based on your own direct efforts because of special skills, knowledge, or abilities?

a)

ascribed status

b)

achieved status

c)

master status

d)

reality status

8.

________________________________ are the socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role.

a)

Role expectation

b)

Role performance

c)

Role establishment

d)

Role reversal

9.

What are the different roles attached to a particular status called?

a)

status set

b)

role set

c)

type set

d)

social set

10.

Steven had to make a decision of whether to be the best on the team or not making the teammates on the team look bad, this is an example of ___________________________.

a)

role performance

b)

role reversal

c)

role conflict

d)

role strain

11.

Suzie has many issues going on. The first issue is that she has practice for soccer. She has been given a huge project in Sociology that is due tomorrow and her grandmother has been in the hospital because of a fall. Suzie is experiencing ______________________________.

a)

role performance

b)

role reversal

c)

role conflict

d)

role strain

12.

When statuses and roles are organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society, the group is called ____________________________________.

a)

social interaction

b)

social institution

c)

social performance

d)

social participation

13.

____________________ occurs when two or more people or groups oppose each other to achieve a goal that only one can attain.

a)

conflict

b)

competition

c)

cooperation

d)

accommodation

14.

What type of social interaction is the deliberate attempt to control a person by force, oppose someone, or harm another person?

a)

accommodation

b)

exchange

c)

cooperation

d)

conflict

15.

What type of social interaction occurs when two or more people or groups work together to achieve a goal that will benefit more than one person?

a)

conflict

b)

cooperation

c)

competition

d)

exchange

16.

the process by which we act with and react to those around us

a)

microsociology

b)

civil inattention

c)

social interaction

d)

structure

17.

preparing for the presentation of ones social role

a)

social position

b)

status

c)

social roles

d)

impression management

18.

the physical space someone maintains between themselves and others.

a)

cultural norms

b)

personal space

c)

self control

d)

contact

19.

The underlying pattern of a group’s social relationships

a)

socialism

b)

social structure

c)

status

d)

society

20.

A position a person occupies within a social structure

a)

socialism

b)

social structure

c)

status

d)

society

21.

a status that is neither earned nor chosen, but it is assigned to us.

a)

ascribed

b)

ascertain

c)

attained

d)

achieved

22.

a status that is earned or chosen.

a)

ascribed

b)

ascertain

c)

attained

d)

achieved

23.

all the statuses that a person occupies at any particular time.

a)

status set

b)

social network

c)

master status

d)

status grouping

24.

a status that is important because they influence most other aspects of a person’s life.

a)

status set

b)

social network

c)

master status

d)

status grouping

25.

in industrial societies, these become master statuses.

a)

Family

b)

Careers

c)

Land

d)

Education

26.

An expected behavior associated with a particular status

a)

obligations

b)

job

c)

rights

d)

role

27.

he actual conduct or behavior involved in performing a role.

a)

role conflict

b)

role performance

c)

role strain

d)

social interaction

28.

the process of influencing each other as people relate.

a)

role conflict

b)

role performance

c)

role strain

d)

social interaction

29.

survive by hunting animals and gathering edible foods such as wild fruits and vegetables

a)

Horticultural Societies

b)

Agricultural Societies

c)

Hunter Gatherer Societies

d)

Pastoral Societies

30.

solve the subsistence (food) problem primarily through the growing of plants.

a)

Horticultural Societies

b)

Agricultural Societies

c)

Hunter Gatherer Societies

d)

Pastoral Societies

31.

solve for subsistence problem by raising and taking care of animals.

a)

Horticultural Societies

b)

Agricultural Societies

c)

Hunter Gatherer Societies

d)

Pastoral Societies

32.

grow food but use plows and animals to do the manual labor.

a)

Horticultural Societies

b)

Agricultural Societies

c)

Hunter Gatherer Societies

d)

Pastoral Societies

33.

A society that is dependent upon science and technology to produce its basic goods and services

a)

Horticultural Societies

b)

Agricultural Societies

c)

Hunter Gatherer Societies

d)

Industrial Society

34.

when animal and human labor is replaced by power driving machines.

a)

Urbanization

b)

Mechanization

c)

Mechanical Solidarity

d)

Social Solidarity

35.

What is social stratification?

a)

The division of society into categories, ranks or classes.

b)

A social structure in which classes are determined by ascribed status.

c)

The unequal sharing of scarce resources, and social rewards.

d)

A social structure in which classes are determined by achieved status.

36.

Which is an example of an ascribed status?

a)

Getting married

b)

Having a child

c)

Becoming a football player

d)

Being a son

37.

Which is an example of an achieved status?

a)

Being a son

b)

Being a brother

c)

Having a child

d)

Being a sister

38.

What situation is described? A mother is expected to take care of her children

a)

role

b)

role strain

c)

role conflict

d)

social interaction

39.

What situation is described? A corporate chief executive officer has to terminate employees who are his friends?

a)

role

b)

role strain

c)

role conflict

d)

social interaction

40.

What type of status is this : President of the United States.

a)

ascribed status

b)

status set

c)

achieved status

d)

master status

41.

Being a teenager is an

a)

ascribed status

b)

status set

c)

achieved status

d)

active status

42.

Being a high school graduate is an

a)

ascribed status

b)

status set

c)

achieved status

d)

active status

43.

A set of behaviors for people who occupy a given status

a)

Class

b)

Role exit

c)

Master status

d)

Role

44.

Which of the following are examples of achieved status?

a)

actor

b)

all of these

c)

musician

d)

basketball player

45.

Which status plays the greatest role in shaping a person’s life and determining his or her social identity?

a)

achieved status

b)

master status

c)

ascribed status

d)

none of these

46.

The socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role are

a)

role performances

b)

role strains.

c)

reciprocal roles.

d)

role expectations.

47.

Which of the following is illustrated by the graphic?

a)

role strain

b)

role set

c)

role conflict

d)

role exit

48.

Which of the following is not an example of ascribed status?

a)

race

b)

knowledge

c)

age

d)

gender

49.

Which of the following is an example of a role conflict?

a)

An employee must stay home to take care of their sick child

b)

A person goes through a divorce and starts dating again.

c)

A boss must make employees work harder and maintain good morale.

50.

Which of the following is a deliberate attempt to control or harm someone with few or no rules of conduct?

a)

cooperation

b)

competition

c)

conflict

d)

reciprocity

51.

Which of the following terms describes people working together?

a)

all of these

b)

competition

c)

conflict

d)

cooperation

52.

Which is not an example of accommodation?

a)

cooperation

b)

truce

c)

compromise

d)

mediation

53.

____________________ statuses are not based on an individual’s abilities, efforts, or accomplishments.

a)

Ascribed

b)

Achieved