SOC 3000 Practice Exam Questions with Correct Answers

The bureaucratic emphasis on files and record keeping is indicative of the tendency to reduce relationships with individuals to definable categories of behavior. 2. For Weber, the systematic and logical application of formal rules and procedures to all aspects of modem life exemplifies The Principle of rationalization 3. The view that the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world is the position of George Ritzer 4. Which of the following statements about "McDonaldization" is/are true? a)The bureaucracy has been supplanted by the fast food restaurant as the best exemplification of the processes of rationalization described by Weber. b)The incorporation of scientific management has resulted in "McJobs" which not only reach new depths of deskilling but also entail control of the self through emotional labor. c)McDonaldization affects education, work, health care, travel, leisure, dieting, politics, the family, and virtually every other aspect of society. 5. Restaurant workers using nicknames, engaging in horseplay, and playing pranks on each other is an example of a. informal subculture within a formal organization. 6. The interactionist approach to the study of bureaucracy emphasizes the ongoing, interpretive communication process by which members construct their own organizational realities. A bureaucracy, according to Weber, has certain readily identifiable characteristics. Which of the following is/are not among those characteristics? A tendency to deal with people as individuals, in terms of personal relationships, rather than impersonally. 1. The study of seemingly individual phenomena like embarrassment is important because through it 2. In terms of embarrassment and shame, a. both states eventuate from an individual's recognition that he or she has visibly broken social rules that cast doubt on the adequacy of his or her identity.