Chapter 9

Question 1

True or false:

Most formal organizations are voluntary associations (ie. Political parties)

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is a similarity shared by formal organizations everywhere?

Answer 2

Each organization has a hierarchical structure. If the organization is international they have both international and national offices.

Question 3

Briefly describe what a bureaucracy is.

Answer 3

Bureaucracies are many large formal organizations, an example is government departments, Tim Hortons, and churches.

Question 4

Briefly explain non-bureaucracies

Answer 4

Non-bureaucracies are straightforward, workers can leave work and have someone cover for them easily since the tasks aren’t too specified.

Question 5

What are 3 of the needs met through groups?

Answer 5

• improve the quality of members lives
• relieve the suffering of others
• achieve a specific social and economic goal

Question 6

Briefly describe feminist organizations

Answer 6

Feminist organizations are groups that pursued goals of specific importance to women’s lives (ie. The girls friendly society)

Question 7

Feminist groups fall under the group of…

Answer 7

Improving quality of life

Question 8

Describe the type of group: empowerment

Answer 8

A group that empowers its members helps them gain control over their lives and affairs

Question 9

Briefly describe self-government

Answer 9

A self-governing community that has the power to make its own laws in areas such as policing, taxation and fishing.

Question 10

Describe good governance

Answer 10

Governance that is participatory, accountable, responsive, efficient and effective, transparent and that operates by the rule of law

Question 11

Briefly explain improving social status

Answer 11

Instead of fighting for a better position in mainstream society, self-governing communities have fought to run their own society alongside the mainstream one.

Question 12

Self-governing communities that fight to run their own society alongside the mainstream one are called…

Answer 12

Advocacy groups

Question 13

Formal organizations are…

Answer 13

Structured groups with rules, these stipulate who can join and who does what.

Question 14

List 3 examples of group memberships

Answer 14

• academic
• athletics
• family life

Question 15

What is the main focus of the sociologists perspective on group memberships?

Answer 15

To focus on how groups helps form a persons identity.

Question 16

True or false:

Secondary social groups change an individual’s identity greatly

Answer 16

False- primary social groups are behaviour models

Question 17

Why do individuals gravitate towards primary social groups instead of secondary?

Answer 17

Because they change in order to gain security, primary groups like family give them this