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. written rules and regulations
B. impersonality
C. division of labor
D. hierarchy of authority


B. impersonality

Sociology

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G. William Domhoff cites _______________ as one of the elite groups in America

a. the labor coalition b. political alliances c. educators d. junior military officers

Sociology

Which of these social functions did European colonial families in America NOT take primary responsibility for?

a) education b) business and economic production c) correctional institutions d) lawmaking e) health and social welfare

Sociology

Nations can maintain their security by threatening violence.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Sociology

In order to be effective in the organization of public behavior, cultural understandings must be all of the following except

a. learned young. b. intermittently disruptive. c. learned routinely. d. widely held.

Sociology