The U.S. military subculture has four main pillars that make it distinct from civilian American culture. What are they? Explain their importance.
What will be an ideal response?
It requires strict discipline throughout the hierarchy; it relies on soldiers' values of loyalty and self-sacrifice to keep order in battle; it uses ceremonies and rituals to create common identities among its members; it emphasizes group cohesion and esprit de corps to keep soldiers interconnected.
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A _____ consists of a formal agreement or understanding between a social worker and a client that specifies the goals to be accomplished, relevant strategies to be implemented, roles and responsibilities of participants, practical arrangements, and other factors
A) ?writ B) ?subpoena C) ?mandate D) ?contract
Tacit knowledge is best defined as:
a. Initial responses to observations, made when analyzing field notes. b. Information that key informants deliberately withhold from intensive interviews. c. Careful considerations of the role of the qualitative researcher in influencing the field site. d. Hypotheses taken from field research that can be tested in future research. e. Largely unarticulated, contextual understandings of social processes.
Which of the following is not a reason why systems theory is valuable in anticipating the positive and negative results of a development project like a dam?
Heterogeneity is especially valuable in ______ groups, as it helps members to see a range of potential enactments of the issues at hand.
a. skill attainment b. identity development c. rehabilitation d. socialization