What is the optimum group size for problem solving ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which group of sociologists note that developers’ bankers and other powerful real estate interests view housing as an investment and are primarily concerned with maximizing profit not with solving social problems?

   A. urban ecologists
   B. new urban sociologist
   C. functionalists
   D. human ecologists

2. Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?

   A. Charles Horton Cooley
   B. Emile Durkheim
   C. William I. Thomas
   D. William Graham Sumner

3. In modern society people belong to so many groups that a number of their in-group and out-group relationships overlap It has given the members of society a wide spectrum of___________?

   A. behavior learning
   B. socialization
   C. both a & b
   D. None of these

4. The rank and position of a person in a group or of a group in relation to other groups is termed as_____________?

   A. Role
   B. Status
   C. Both a and b
   D. None of these

5. Chinese social control is done mainly through group pressure Every individual is a member of a small group called_____________?

   A. Danwie
   B. Communis
   C. Nessar
   D. None of these

6. Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?

   A. labelling theory
   B. control theory
   C. functionalist theory
   conflict theory

7. When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?

   A. immanence
   B. anomie
   C. hysteria
   D. goal displacement
   E. cultural lag

8. Spread of cultural traits from group to group is called______________?

   A. Intercultural harmony
   B. Cultural contacts
   C. diffusion
   D. None of these

9. In an experiment two groups are identical except for the change that researchers introduce into one group That group is called______________?

   A. the contaminated group
   B. the control groups
   C. the experimental group
   D. the neutral standard

10. Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?

    A. labelling theory
    B. control theory
    C. functionalist theory
    D. conflict theory