Sociology help? Please!?

Posted on 2014-04-25 13:07:00 in Sociology by MAY223

1.) José goes to a training session for election volunteers in his precinct. There are 15 participants and two trainers. What type of group is this an example of?



a) a party

b) a large group

c) a primary group

d) a small group



2.)What social trend, related to social capital, did Robert Putnam focus on in his book Bowling Alone?



a) Individual donations to charitable organizations in the United States have increased.

b) The most tightly knit communities depend on the strength of weak ties.

c) People are finding new way of investing their social capital.

d)People are less involved in communal activities and organizations.



3.)Sociologist Robert Wuthnow acknowledges there have been changes in Americans' sense of connection to one another and to communities, and he argues that ________



a) those connections have mostly been lost and will become increasingly difficult to replace.

b)those connections have not disappeared and that people are not necessarily worse off because of these changes.

c)people have to seek alternative ways to connect to one another or risk a further decline in social capital.

d) these changes have led to high levels of civic disengagement



4.) One advantage of network analysis is that ________



a) it can reveal patterns in social structures that might not ever become evident through answers to direct questions.

b) numbers are always more reliable than people's own descriptions.

c) it can be used to look at historical as well as contemporary situations.

d) it can delve more deeply into embedded ties



Help with any of these would be greatly appreciated!!

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