Work Structures
Education Structures
Groups and Organizations
Key Terms!
Key Terms!
100
How does overload lead to workplace conflict?
Overload occurs when highly motivated people take on too much work.This strategy works in the short-term, but has negative effects on long-term personal relaonships. Leading to physical and mental health problems.
100
Dress code and Suspension/Expulsion policies
What two factors affect school discipline?
100
They study conformity.
What are psychologists?
100
An economy that only produces goods enough to sustain workers for a short period of time.
What is subsistence economy?
100
Distance Learning
What is an alternative form of education that allows students to take courses without being physically present in the learning institution.
200
3 sectors of economy
What are... -Primary -Secondary -Tertiary
200
Teachers are given the authority to suspend students whereas principles are allowed to expel students
What are teachers given the authority to do and principles are allowed to do as well?
200
Difference between and primary and secondary group.
What is a primary group involves more close, personal relationships, while a secondary group involves more formal relationships?
200
A set of unwritten goals of education.The purpose of the education system is to achieve these goals in the lives of students in order to turn them into good workers.
What is Hidden Curriculum?
200
Demography
What is the study of the statistics of births deaths, disease and so on, as a means to understand the conditions of life in communities.
300
Why is economy our most important social institution?
The economy is an important social institution because it organizes the production, dristibution, and consumption of goods and services within our society.It establibhes ways through which we get our everyday goods and services.
300
Warning signs of drop out situations?
What are changes in sleep patterns, negative attitudes towards education?
300
Name 3 of the 6 characteristics of bureaucracies.
Answers will vary. What are... 1.Areas of responsibility are fixed and official, and are enforced by rules 2.There are multiple levels of authority; lower levels are supervised by higher ones 3.Management is based on official documents called “files.” 4.Managers are systematically trained for their jobs. 5.Managers must work full time, often putting on extended hours. 6.There are rules for all aspects of the bureaucracy’s operations.
300
The belief that schools should teach students what society considers to be the correct answer to questions, downplaying the individual search for the truth.
What is Traditional Philosophy?
300
Stockholm Syndrome
What is the tendency of victims of crimes such as hostage-taking, under certain conditions, to identify with the perpetrators and to resist those who try to rescue them?
400
4 basic career paths available to Canadians in the new economy
What are... -Linear -Steady-state -Spiral -Transitory
400
How many hours do students use during the week to leave for school work?
What is a minimum of 30 hours of school work?
400
Give two examples of NGOs.
What are UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders?
400
Commercial bureaucracies that operate to make a profit for their owners.
What is Utilitarian Bureaucracies?
400
Ambiguity
What is confusion that results from goals, roles, or procedures being unclear. (in wider context-a state of affairs that in part or entirely can be understood or interpreted in more than one way.)
500
Any 3 of the 5 conflict-management styles
Answers will vary. What are... -The Integrator -The Obliger -The Dominator -The Avoider -The Compromiser
500
Name some characteristics of dropouts
What are...they found school rules strict.They were bored being in school. They work while attending school and had friends who placed little value on education
500
Indicates how strongly humans are motivated to belong to groups.
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
500
Flaw in computer hardware that many people feared would have caused the world's computers to crash.
What is Y2K Bug?
500
Dyad
What is a social group consisting of two members?
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