Define and give two examples of a formal association.
What will be an ideal response?
Formal associations are large groups or organizations with explicit purposes and rules of membership, including the YMCA, the neighborhood swim club, the Teamsters union, the Burning Tree Country Club, and the Boy Scouts.
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a. 60 b. 50 c. 30 d. 10
Which of these is true of poverty and divorce?
A. Poverty increases chances of divorce. B. Poverty decreases chances of divorce. C. Poverty has no effect on chances of divorce. D. Researchers do not understand the impact of poverty on the divorce rate.
A theory based on the idea that new norms are created because of some precipitating event is called ______.
A. contagion theory B. convergence theory C. mass-society theory D. emergent norm theory
You enroll in a freshman Introduction to Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students, with a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
A. impersonality B. written rules and regulations C. hierarchy of authority D. division of labor