University of Hawaii, Manoa

SOC 100

Chapter 5

1)Melinda and Justin are co-leads on a project at work, but their working styles differ greatly and they are having trouble agreeing on procedures and objectives. Elena, a member of their team who is relatively new to the company, steps in and pulls together a crucial part of the project to meet a tight deadline. The account manager is impressed with her work and she ends up getting a promotion after the project is completed. In this triad, Elena could be said to have assumed what role?

2. According to the sociologist Georg Simmel’s categories, what is the key difference between a small group and a party?

3. A company changes from an assembly-line approach to product development to a team-based approach. This involves a fundamental change to the company’s               .

4. The Asch Test provides insight into what concept?

5.               refers to the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths within a social network.

6. One advantage of network analysis over interpretive sociology is that                       

7. A group with five members has the potential for how many relationships?

8. What social trend, related to social capital, did Robert Putnam focus on in his book Bowling Alone?

9. In a re-examination of Stanley Milgram’s six degrees of separation theory, Duncan Watts estimated that about half of the population is connected to each other through six degrees. If these networks were mapped what would you call the dead ends where groups lack connections between clusters?

10. In the context of social networks, a tie is                    

11. One of the unique characteristics of a dyad is that                    .

12. A structural hole is                  

13. A/An                is a group that helps us understand or make sense of our position in society relative to other groups.

14. Which of the following is an example of a primary group?

15. Jose goes to a training session for election volunteers in his precinct. There are 15 participants and two trainers. This would be an example of which kind of group?

16. Marc wants to get an internship with a state legislator. He has talked to his family members and friends, but no one seems to have any useful contacts and he knows that the internships are highly competitive. One day he runs into a former classmate he hasn’t seen for several years, and it turns out the classmate has a cousin who worked as the assistant campaign manager for a state senator in the most recent election. The classmate offers to put Marc in touch with his cousin. This is an example of what concept?

17. A secondary group is characterized by                       .

18. Many cell phone companies have similar offers and restrictions for changing numbers, adding numbers to a plan, getting a new phone, paying for minutes used beyond the allotted free minutes, and so on. These similarities can be said to be due to which of the following processes?