Chapter 4: Interaction, Groups, and Organizations
Key Terms


This section is designed to test your knowledge of interaction, groups, and organizations.


1.  

In _________ societies, social interaction revolves around personal relationships, and people usually interact with the same group of people for their entire lifetimes.

modern
associational
communal
transitional


2.  

_________ is based mainly on force.

competition
coercion
cooperation
conflict


3.  

A father engages in _________ when he offers his child ice cream for good behavior.

cooperation
coercion
conflict
exchange


4.  

Race is a/an _________ status.

ascribed
set
achieved
cultural


5.  

Professors often experience _________ because they are expected to balance teaching and research.

role conflict
master status
ascribed status
role strain


6.  

Pretending to be a visitor in your parents' home to learn about the unspoken rules embedded in our culture is called a/an _________.

breaching experiment
front region
dramaturgy
back region


7.  

Sheila was upset because she always sent Sarah a birthday card, but had never received one from her. Sarah violated the _________.

breaching experiment
norm of reciprocity
back stage behavior
dramaturgy


8.  

Faculty members within a department are a/an _________.

informal group
primary group
formal group
out-group


9.  

Chinese Americans are member of a/an _________.

primary group
category
out-group
informal group.


10.  

An _________ leader is concerned with the feelings of group members.

informal
expressive
instrumental
instructive


11.  

_________ leadership requires more time because members have a great deal of power in decision making.

authoritarian
instrumental
expressive
democratic


12.  

In _________ societies, much of life centers around organizations.

associational
communal
transitional
traditional


13.  

Schools are ________ organizations because children must attend whether they want to or not.

voluntary
instrumental
coercive


14.  

The U.S. government is a _________ because it is based on explicit rules with a clear, impersonal hierarchical authority structure.

coercive organization
authoritarian
bureaucracy
oligarchy


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