Authorities rescue a young woman aged 14, raised in a cage by foster parents who rarely interacted with her. She cannot speak a language or behave in a socially acceptable way. The rescued girl lacks:
a. secondary group identity.
b. biological stage development.
c. money for better care.
d. any experience with boys her own age, so she is socially shy.
e. primary socialization.
Question 2Granovetter learned that contacts who helped newly employed workers land their jobs were likely those that the job seekers
a. saw on a daily basis.
b. maintained sporadic contact with, such as a former classmate.
c. were related to.
d. knew from church.
Question 3John was past retirement, almost 80, when he discovered that people were defining him as a senior citizen. This role required John to:
a. apply for more insurance to help him retire.
b. adjust to the social identity given to him by society.
c. perform more roles based on respect and honor.
d. deal with his anomic personality.
e. adjust his id to the pressures of the ego.
Question 4To measure the strength of a job seeker's ties to contacts, Granovetter
a. asked how often he/she saw a contact.
b. created a diagram of social ties.
c. asked for how long they knew contacts.
d. interviewed contacts to get a rating of closeness.
Question 5When someone loses his or her job, this also means the loss of:
a. the social mirror of society.
b. problem solving that helps stage development.
c. a social identity many people find central to self-esteem.
d. moral reasoning in primary social groups.
e. the process of socialization.
Question 6In interviews with the workers who changed jobs, Granovetter learned that the contacts who helped them land the job were most often an old friend, a former co-worker, or former employer. In addition, that contact was likely to be someone with whom that worker had maintained sporadic contact over the years. Granovetter called these
a. the division of labor.
b. weak ties.
c. strong ties.
d. a social network.
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