The untested hypothesis that every employee within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence is referred to as
A. bureaucracy.
B. the Peter principle.
C. trained incapacity.
D. goal displacement.
Answer: B
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a. ensure a high degree of uniformity of action. b. encourage conformity. c. provide direction. d. all of the above.
In his ecological model of Chicago's growth and development, Robert Park noted the linkage between social mobility and
A) family commitment. B) spatial mobility. C) popularity. D) deviance
Model of urban growth that argues that the city grows as a series of rings:
A) sector theory B) multiple-nuclei theory C) concentric zone model D) central growth model
______ was one of the leading structural-functionalists who developed strain theory in the mid-1900s.
A. Travis Hirschi B. Robert K. Merton C. Erving Goffman D. Talcott Parsons