Your professor receives a promotion when she publishes a journal article within her body of expertise, instead of the promotion going to the department chair's brother-in-law who used to be a cashier but could really use the money. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
A. hierarchy of authority
B. employment based on technical qualifications
C. impersonality
D. division of labor
Answer: B
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Biological reductionist thought is illustrated by
a) arguments stating that girls are not naturally as fast, or are as strong, as boys. b) aggression not being linked to having a penis. c) testosterone being an indicator of higher social skills and academic aptitude. d) the older men get, the more feminine they are likely to become.
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz thought of culture as a __________
a. system of collective meaning b. collection of material objects c. series of mysterious rituals d. series of coded messages
What is not one of the main reasons people fall into poverty in any given year?
A. job loss B. eviction C. physical injury D. divorce
Mills refers to the sociological imagination as the
a. promise. b. deterrent. c. failure. d. debate.