Georgia State University SOCI 3201 1)According to the reading Bourgeois and Proletarians by Marx, what is the result of increasingly developed modern industry as related to gender equality at work? a

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SOCI 3201

1)According to the reading Bourgeois and Proletarians by Marx, what is the result of increasingly developed modern industry as related to gender equality at work?

a.            men become increasingly valued relative to women

b.            women and men become increasingly similar in terms of their exploitation

c.             all workers become valued more regardless of their gender

d.            the workplace distinctions between men and women are enhanced

e.            women become increasingly powerful relative to men in absolute terms

2.            According to the reading Bourgeois and Proletarians by Marx, which of the following is the truly revolutionary class?

a.            workers

b.            small manufacturers

c.             peasants

d.            artisans

e.            the lower middle class

3.            Parkinson’s Law refers to which of the following?

a.            in bureaucracies’ employees rise to the level of their incompetence

b.            in bureaucracies work expands to fill the time available for its completion

c.             in bureaucracies’ rigid routines and pressure to conform stifles creativity

d.            in bureaucracies communication is almost always downward

e.            bureaucracies often lose sight of the original reason (goal) of the organization

4.            In which of the following ways did Weber agree with Marx in his predictions of what would take place as a result of the rise of the capitalistic state?

a.            Weber felt that working in a bureaucracy would be alienating.

b.            Weber felt that bureaucracy would cease to exist in modern society.

c.             Weber felt more strongly than Marx that social class (i.e. economics) would be the dominant criteria of stratification.

d.            All of the above

5.            According to Weber, which of the following types of actions and becoming less common in modern societies?

a.            Traditional action

b.            Value-rational action

c.             Affective action

d.            Rationally purposeful action

e.            All of the above

6.            For Weber, which of the following is the most obvious example of rationalization of modern capitalism?

a.            alienation

b.            commodification

c.             pseudo charisma

d.            authority

e.            bureaucracy

7.            Which of the following is an aspect of Weber’s typology of bureaucracy? a. Bureaucracies are designed as a bottom-up hierarchy

b.            Bureaucracies rely on workers to challenge authority

c.             Bureaucracies produce individuals who exercise conscientious autonomy

d.            Bureaucracies are designed to be inefficient

e.            Bureaucracies are meritocratic

8.            According to Weber, what is the form of social action that is dominant in modern societies?

a.            charismatic

b.            rationally purposeful

c.             value-rational

d.            traditional

e.            objective

9.            According to The Three Types of Legitimate Rule by Max Weber, the process of making charismatic power traditional is referred to as which of the following

a.            pseudo charisma

b.            transformative rule

c.             routinization

d.            charismatic succession

e.            none of the above

10.          According to The Three Types of Legitimate Rule by Max Weber, charisma in its purest form is which of the following?

a.            authoritarian

b.            derived from the acknowledgement of the ruled

c.             legitimated in an uncoerced way

d.            free of the threat of punishment

e.            based on tradition and logic