Types of Social Groups
Types of Leadership
Formal Organizations
Sociology Research
Vocabulary
100
Members share personal and lasting relationships.
What is a Primary Group
100
Group leadership that focuses on the completion of tasks.
What is Instrumental Leadership.
100
The three types of Formal Organizations.
What are Utilitarian, Normative, and Coercive organizations
100
Found that many of us are willing to compromise our own judgment to avoid the discomfort of being seen as different, even by people we do not know.
What is Solomon Asch
100
A focus and regulations to the point of undermining an organizations goal.
What is Bureaucratic Ritualism
200
A social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty.
What is an In-Group
200
Group leadership that focuses on the group’s well-being.
What is Expressive Leadership
200
Pay people for there efforts, an example of this is government organizations.
What is Utilitarian Organization.
200
Conducted a controversial study of conformity and used a "phony" electric chair in his experiments.
Who is Stanley Milgram
200
The tendency of a bureaucratic organization to perpetuate themselves.
What is Bureaucratic Inertia
300
A social group with two members.
What is a Dyad.
300
Focuses on instrumental concerns, takes personal charge of decision making, and demands group members to obey orders.
What is Authoritarian Leadership
300
Have goals people consider worthwhile, voluntary work associations.
What are Normative Organizations.
300
The tendency of a group of members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue.
What is Janis's Groupthink
300
The rule of many by few.
What is Oligarchy
400
A social group that serves as a point of reference in making evaluations and decisions.
What is a Reference Group.
400
More expressive and makes a point of including everyone in the decision-making process.
What is Democratic Leadership.
400
Organizations people are forced to join, such as prisons.
What is Coercive Organizations.
400

The Stanford Prison experiment conducted by this Social Psychologist looked at the influence of groups on behavior. 

Who is Zimbardo 

400
Frederick Taylor’s term for the application of scientific principles to the operation of a business or other large organization.
What is Scientific Management
500
A social group with three members.
What is a Triad
500
This style of leadership is the least effective in promoting group goals.
What is Laissez-faire leadership.
500
An organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently.
What is Bureaucracy.
500
Described the dyad as intense but unstable; the triad, he said, is more stable.
Who is George Simmel
500
A web of weak social ties.
What is a Network
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