Joan calls a computer company for assistance and is transferred to several different people. After she had been on hold for 20 minutes, she is disconnected. What has Joan just experienced?
A. the Peter principle
B. red tape
C. legal-rational authority
D. informationalism
Answer: B
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a. laissez-faire b. politics c. causality d. cross-dependence
Functionalism often glosses over the widespread inequality that a handful of powerful people create and maintain.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
You read about two theoretical perspectives in Chapter 3. Which of these is most like the ideas Mao Zedong followed in making social change in China?
a. the evolutionary social systems perspective b. the dialectical model of modernization c. the conflict perspective d. the perspective of a vanguard party
Bureaucracies were an essential feature of preindustrial empires such as:
A. Rome B. Greece C. England D. France