SOCY 1000 MCCONNELL CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Sparse social network - ✔✔A network in which many people do not know one
another personally and where ties are mainly indirect is a what?
✔✔Embedded - ✔✔When two people who have a direct tie also have indirect ties
reinforcing their relationship, their direct tie is described as what?
✔✔indirect tie - ✔✔Bill
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Pat --------- Jim
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Sue
Bill and Sue have what kind of tie?
✔✔Embedded - ✔✔Bill
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Pat --------- Jim
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Sue
The relationship between Pat and Jim, in the network shown above, is what, because of
their ties to Bill and Sue?
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Instrumental relationships within secondary groups are usually uniplex ties.
, ✔✔FALSE: Granovetter found that friends the individual sees "OCCASIONALLY" are
most able to help her find a job - ✔✔T/F
Granovetter found that friends the individual sees "often" are most able to help her find
a job.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔T/F
Stark observes that pagan social networks remained intact during the plagues of 165
and 251 AD.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Stark believes that Christianity spread during the first and second centuries through
social networks.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Disease can most effectively be prevented from spreading when it is found to be
concentrated in a core of infected persons.
✔✔Individuals with a variety of weak, uniplex ties to people outside of their primary
networks have access to more sources of information. - ✔✔Why did Granovetter find
that people more often got jobs through weak ties?
✔✔1. No anonymity- know everyone around you
2. Surveillance- watching someone or something you don't know
3. Norms of reciprocity- helping one another
4. Trust- norms are developed because of trust - ✔✔What are the four characteristics of
a community that is a dense social network?
✔✔1. Thought Christianity was the cure for the plague
2. Pagans left them to die and the Christians came to help
3. Tell everyone they know about Christianity - ✔✔What explanations does Stark give
for the spread of Christianity?
✔✔Edward Burnett Tylor - ✔✔Who wrote Primitive Culture?
✔✔Social structure - ✔✔A social network is a kind of what?
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔Clifford Geertz defined culture as a system of what?
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔What connects nonmaterial culture with material culture?
✔✔Matthew Arnold - ✔✔Whose humanities definition of culture describes true culture
as "sweetness and light?"
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Sparse social network - ✔✔A network in which many people do not know one
another personally and where ties are mainly indirect is a what?
✔✔Embedded - ✔✔When two people who have a direct tie also have indirect ties
reinforcing their relationship, their direct tie is described as what?
✔✔indirect tie - ✔✔Bill
/\
/\
Pat --------- Jim
\/
\/
Sue
Bill and Sue have what kind of tie?
✔✔Embedded - ✔✔Bill
/\
/\
Pat --------- Jim
\/
\/
Sue
The relationship between Pat and Jim, in the network shown above, is what, because of
their ties to Bill and Sue?
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Instrumental relationships within secondary groups are usually uniplex ties.
, ✔✔FALSE: Granovetter found that friends the individual sees "OCCASIONALLY" are
most able to help her find a job - ✔✔T/F
Granovetter found that friends the individual sees "often" are most able to help her find
a job.
✔✔FALSE - ✔✔T/F
Stark observes that pagan social networks remained intact during the plagues of 165
and 251 AD.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Stark believes that Christianity spread during the first and second centuries through
social networks.
✔✔TRUE - ✔✔T/F
Disease can most effectively be prevented from spreading when it is found to be
concentrated in a core of infected persons.
✔✔Individuals with a variety of weak, uniplex ties to people outside of their primary
networks have access to more sources of information. - ✔✔Why did Granovetter find
that people more often got jobs through weak ties?
✔✔1. No anonymity- know everyone around you
2. Surveillance- watching someone or something you don't know
3. Norms of reciprocity- helping one another
4. Trust- norms are developed because of trust - ✔✔What are the four characteristics of
a community that is a dense social network?
✔✔1. Thought Christianity was the cure for the plague
2. Pagans left them to die and the Christians came to help
3. Tell everyone they know about Christianity - ✔✔What explanations does Stark give
for the spread of Christianity?
✔✔Edward Burnett Tylor - ✔✔Who wrote Primitive Culture?
✔✔Social structure - ✔✔A social network is a kind of what?
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔Clifford Geertz defined culture as a system of what?
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔What connects nonmaterial culture with material culture?
✔✔Matthew Arnold - ✔✔Whose humanities definition of culture describes true culture
as "sweetness and light?"
