Most societies reserve the use of conflict for officials of the state.

Being a professor is an ascribed status.

Sometimes a person's ascribed status will affect their achieved status.

Some working parents experience role strain when their responsibilities as parents and as employees are incompatible.

The number of units in the social network of a member of an industrial society is less than that of a member of a preindustrial society.

Pretending not to notice a mistake in a role performance is called studied nonobservance.

Simon failed to get a job with the Federal Bureau of Investigation because he wore torn blue jeans to the interview. Simon failed in back region behavior.

Five people waiting at a bus stop constitute a group.

Primary groups often develop within secondary groups.

Democratic leaders encourage the flow of communication and ideas between leader and members.

The roles in a bureaucracy differ in prestige and power.

All organizations are bureaucracies.

Bureaucracies have many people at the top of the authority structure and few at the bottom.

One of the negative consequences of bureaucracies is trained incapacity.

Sometimes the goals of a bureaucracy are replaced with the goals of a bureaucrat.