Week 5 Quiz

In an illustrative city, a group-chat post claims a late-night bus route is unsafe. Riders stop using the bus, the transit agency sees it nearly empty, and the route is cut. According to the Thomas theorem, what became real here?

Select one.

• The danger on the bus, because so many riders believed in it
• The rumor itself, because a shared belief is always accurate
• The cut route, because people acted on how they defined the situation
• Nothing, because the route was never shown to be unsafe

A person is a pharmacist, a volunteer firefighter, and someone's grandchild. Which of these is an ascribed status?

Select one.

• Being someone's grandchild
• Being a pharmacist
• Being a volunteer firefighter
• Being both a pharmacist and a firefighter

A team captain must both encourage teammates and decide which of them sits out each game. Which term names this tension?

Select one.

• Role conflict, because two demands pull in different directions
• Role exit, because some players leave the starting lineup
• Master status, because the captain role dominates the person
• Role strain, because the competing demands sit inside one role

A local TV weather forecaster is greeted as "the weather person" at the grocery store, at a parent-teacher meeting, and at a pickup game. What makes this a master status?

Select one.

• It is the status the forecaster likes best and is proudest of
• It dominates how other people see and treat the forecaster
• It is an ascribed status the forecaster was born into
• It is the status that carries the highest income

At a busy restaurant, a server smiles and recites the specials at each table, then jokes with the cooks in the kitchen about a difficult customer. In Goffman's dramaturgy, how is the kitchen best described?

Select one.

• As the front stage, because the server is still at work there
• As the server's only real self, free of any audience
• As the back stage, hidden from diners, where the performance drops
• As impression management, because the cooks set the menu

A hardware store's evening crew has six people who stock shelves and serve customers, talk mostly about the work, and know little about one another's lives. How should a sociologist classify the crew?

Select one.

• A primary group, because six people is a small group
• A dyad, because the crew works in pairs on most shifts
• An out-group, because the crew is not the student's family
• A secondary group, because it is organized around a shared task

At an illustrative county license office, every visitor takes a numbered ticket and is served in that order, whoever they are. Which trait of Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy does the ticket system show most directly?

Select one.

• Impersonality
• Technical qualification
• Specialization
• Hierarchy of offices

A coffee chain posts a screen above the counter that times every order in seconds, and staff speed is judged by that number. Which dimension of McDonaldization does the screen show?

Select one.

• Predictability
• Calculability
• Efficiency
• Control

In Asch's 1951 study, about one-third (32%) of critical-trial answers were pro-majority errors under a unanimous majority, and 10.4% were when one partner answered correctly. Which statement reads this change accurately?

Select one.

• Errors fell by 21.6 percent, so the ally removed most of the pull
• Errors fell from 32% to 0%, so one ally ended all conformity
• Errors fell by 21.6 percentage points, to about a third as many
• Errors fell by 10.4 percentage points, the size of the new share

In Granovetter's 1973 survey, of 54 job-finders who found work through a contact, 16.7% saw the contact often, 55.6% occasionally, and 27.8% rarely. Select every statement that reads these figures accurately.

Select every option that applies.

• 55.6 + 27.8 = 83.4% found the job through someone they saw occasionally or rarely
• The figures show that weak ties are better ties than close friendships
• The survey describes which contacts these job-finders used; it does not test a cause
• The shares add to 100.1, which shows the study made an error
• Most of these job-finders found work through a contact they saw often