Societal Concepts and Theories
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A ______ is a temporary, loosely formed collection of people that is too anonymous and transitory to qualify as a group.

crowd

A ______ refers to a cluster of people who may be in close physical proximity but do not interact with one another.

aggregate

A ______ group is the most fundamental unit of human society, with long-lasting members who share personal and enduring relationships.

primary

Charles Horton Cooley defined primary groups as a small social group whose members ______ in many ways.

<p>help one another</p> Signup and view all the answers

Secondary groups are ______ and have casual relationships, are large in size, and are short-term.

<p>impersonal</p> Signup and view all the answers

Secondary groups tend to ______ of what they give.

<p>keep score</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sadidi Ag Inaka lives the life of his ______

<p>ancestor</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hunting and Gathering societies are built on ______

<p>kinship</p> Signup and view all the answers

In Horticultural societies, people use a ______ to work the soil

<p>hoe</p> Signup and view all the answers

Pastoral societies involve the domestication of ______ and animals

<p>plants</p> Signup and view all the answers

Material surplus occurs when there are more resources than needed for day-to-day ______

<p>living</p> Signup and view all the answers

In Transhumance, parts of the group move with the ______, but most people stay at home

<p>herd</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agrarian societies encouraged permanent settlements and production increased due to large-scale ______

<p>cultivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

In Industrial societies, railroads and steamships revolutionized ______

<p>transportation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Automobiles & electricity powered modern ______

<p>conveniences</p> Signup and view all the answers

Post-Industrial societies are based on computers and other electronic ______

<p>devices</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Information revolution in Post-Industrial societies uses less and less of its labor force for ______ production

<p>industrial</p> Signup and view all the answers

Technology in Post-Industrial societies remedies many human problems by raising productivity, reducing infectious disease, and sometimes simply relieving ______

<p>boredom</p> Signup and view all the answers

Groups according to Form of Organization are also called ______

<p>social organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

Formal organizations have a certain type of administrative machinery aimed to enable members meet its ______

<p>goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

Bureaucracy refers to hierarchical arrangement in large-scale formal organizations in which parts of the organization are ordered in a manner of a ______ based on a division of function and authority

<p>pyramid</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Dyad is a social group with ______ members; more intense but unstable

<p>two</p> Signup and view all the answers

Triad is a social group with ______ members

<p>three</p> Signup and view all the answers

Social network is a web of weak social ______

<p>ties</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ______ is a social unit in which individuals feel at home and with which they identify.

<p>in-group</p> Signup and view all the answers

Members of an in-group generally hold overly positive views of ______.

<p>themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

A ______ group is organized to meet the special interests of its members.

<p>special interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

A ______ refers to a group organized to support or influence social actions.

<p>pressure</p> Signup and view all the answers

Gemeinschaft refers to a social system in which most relationships are ______.

<p>personal</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a Gesselschaft social system, relationships are ______, business-like, secondary and rationalized.

<p>impersonal</p> Signup and view all the answers

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