socs exam review
Which ONE of the six types of society in human history has the least
inequality (agricultural, postindustrial, industrial, biotech or hunter-gatherer)? -
correct answer ✔hunter and gathers
Which ONE of the six types of human society has the MOST inequality usually
AND has the largest families too? - correct answer ✔Agricultural
What are the two processes that tend to increase class inequality in
postindustrial society? - correct answer ✔Automation (humans getting
replaced by computers) and outsourcing (jobs are shipped overseas)
7. What is the global village concept? - correct answer ✔the idea that the
world is more interconnected by trade, travel and communication (positives:
consumer/busienss efficency/ jobs in poor nations) (negatives: global
pandemics, terrorism, bad jobs in poor nations, cyber war/terror, invasive
species, biotech societies)
8. What were presented as three plusses of the global village from LECTURE
notes? - correct answer ✔consumer/business efficiency/ jobs in poor nations
9. From the above question, what does the phrase 'business efficiency' mean
in relation to the global village concept? - correct answer ✔more profits for
business (cheaper raw materials = cheap labor, global community chain)
11. What IS Stuxnet (p 675-6), much later chapter and see NOTES on 4
downsides for global village.
12. Who unleashed Stuxnet on who AND what did it do?? See the TEXT!!! -
correct answer ✔The Stuxnet worm was a malware that the United States
put into Iran's computer codes to set back their development of nuclear
, weapons they were using to threaten other countries. This can be considered
a downside of a global village because technology makes terrorism and
hacking very easy- we have become closer and very invasive.
14. What IS groupthink (definition) AND name some historic EXAMPLES of it?
- correct answer ✔Narrowing of thought by a cohesive group leading to the
perception that there is only one correct way to proceed. Columbia shuttle
disaster 2003.
15. A society in which most people work at moving information rather than
making things is called which of the six main types of society? - correct
answer ✔post industrial
16. What was the Milgram shock experiment about? (conformity to authority,
conformity to peers, individualism or effect of group size on a person's
perceptions or self-censorship in expert groups???) - correct answer
✔conformity to authority ... shock for wrong answers ... follow the
authority/comply with the demand of authority ... 68% went to danger shock
17. Same response choices as in question above: What was Ash's card
experiment about (see above question for choices!!)? - correct answer
✔conformity to peers ... what a group says affects a person (main person is
last) a..a..a..a.. B? ¾ even when answer is clear
18. What did the Darley and Latane (1968) study conclude about human
group behavior? - correct answer ✔group size matters ... group size shapes
the individual ... diffusion of responsibility
19. Which one of the four classic studies on group dynamics focuses on how
members of expert leadership groups practice self-censorship and often leads
to leaders making uninformed and often poor decisions (such as the Shuttle
Which ONE of the six types of society in human history has the least
inequality (agricultural, postindustrial, industrial, biotech or hunter-gatherer)? -
correct answer ✔hunter and gathers
Which ONE of the six types of human society has the MOST inequality usually
AND has the largest families too? - correct answer ✔Agricultural
What are the two processes that tend to increase class inequality in
postindustrial society? - correct answer ✔Automation (humans getting
replaced by computers) and outsourcing (jobs are shipped overseas)
7. What is the global village concept? - correct answer ✔the idea that the
world is more interconnected by trade, travel and communication (positives:
consumer/busienss efficency/ jobs in poor nations) (negatives: global
pandemics, terrorism, bad jobs in poor nations, cyber war/terror, invasive
species, biotech societies)
8. What were presented as three plusses of the global village from LECTURE
notes? - correct answer ✔consumer/business efficiency/ jobs in poor nations
9. From the above question, what does the phrase 'business efficiency' mean
in relation to the global village concept? - correct answer ✔more profits for
business (cheaper raw materials = cheap labor, global community chain)
11. What IS Stuxnet (p 675-6), much later chapter and see NOTES on 4
downsides for global village.
12. Who unleashed Stuxnet on who AND what did it do?? See the TEXT!!! -
correct answer ✔The Stuxnet worm was a malware that the United States
put into Iran's computer codes to set back their development of nuclear
, weapons they were using to threaten other countries. This can be considered
a downside of a global village because technology makes terrorism and
hacking very easy- we have become closer and very invasive.
14. What IS groupthink (definition) AND name some historic EXAMPLES of it?
- correct answer ✔Narrowing of thought by a cohesive group leading to the
perception that there is only one correct way to proceed. Columbia shuttle
disaster 2003.
15. A society in which most people work at moving information rather than
making things is called which of the six main types of society? - correct
answer ✔post industrial
16. What was the Milgram shock experiment about? (conformity to authority,
conformity to peers, individualism or effect of group size on a person's
perceptions or self-censorship in expert groups???) - correct answer
✔conformity to authority ... shock for wrong answers ... follow the
authority/comply with the demand of authority ... 68% went to danger shock
17. Same response choices as in question above: What was Ash's card
experiment about (see above question for choices!!)? - correct answer
✔conformity to peers ... what a group says affects a person (main person is
last) a..a..a..a.. B? ¾ even when answer is clear
18. What did the Darley and Latane (1968) study conclude about human
group behavior? - correct answer ✔group size matters ... group size shapes
the individual ... diffusion of responsibility
19. Which one of the four classic studies on group dynamics focuses on how
members of expert leadership groups practice self-censorship and often leads
to leaders making uninformed and often poor decisions (such as the Shuttle
