What is the technological imperative?
a. The requirement that some corporations are making for employees to use their own technology
b. The need that young people, in particular, have to own only the very newest forms of technology
c. The need to test each new technology in an attempt to avoid unanticipated negative consequences
d. The reality that once a technology becomes available it is very difficult to avoid using it
d
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Many businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations exist to serve poor people or to monitor their behavior. This arrangement is an example of
a. functional uniqueness. b. comparable worth. c. the functions of poverty. d. status consciousness.
Over the past century, American sociologists have been very concerned with assimilation as a result of ______.
A. the aftermath of slavery B. world developments, including the re-formation of nation-states into smaller cultural units C. increased racial conflict and discrimination D. the influx of immigrants from Latin American countries E. the mass immigration from Europe to the United States between the 1820s and the 1920s
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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How does Taylorism (scientific management used to streamline mass production) resemble a bureaucracy?
a.) Routinization is found in assembly line work as well as bureaucracy. b.) Both assembly lines and bureaucracies depend on hierarchies. c.) Specialization is a characteristic of both an assembly line and a bureaucracy. d.) Assembly lines and bureaucracies require workers to assume a fixed role.