Max Weber used the term ________ to refer to the transition of authority from a charismatic leader to either a rational-legal authority or traditional authority.
A) routinization of charisma
B) passing of the gavel
C) transfer of power
D) rationalization of leadership
Question 2Under czarist Russia, daily living conditions for Jews were made so intolerable that millions chose to leave Russia and migrate to other countries. This is an example of ________.
A) departmentalization
B) subhumanization
C) indirect transfer
D) direct transfer
Question 3Why was it possible for a peaceful transfer of power to take place in South Africa when President de Klerk (a powerful white South African) was replaced by Nelson Mandela (a black South African)?
A) The transfer of power was based on cultural tradition.
B) The Mandela faction had control of a large military power base.
C) The de Klerk regime ran out of funds and could no longer make the necessary payoffs to remain in office.
D) The nation followed the procedures based on rational-legal authority.
Question 4What is the practice of suttee?
A) permitting only men the right to vote
B) requiring women to cover their faces in public
C) passing legislation that legally makes women inferior to men
D) burning the living widow with the body of her dead husband
Question 5When an executioner wears a hood he is separating his true identity (the man without a hood) from the one carrying out the execution. Such behavior is part of an effort to separate one's feelings from one's acts, called ________.
A) primogeniture
B) compurgation
C) selective perception
D) compartmentalization
Question 6Why did Joan of Arc, Adolph Hitler, and Jesus Christ all have in common?
A) They were all driven to success by political ambition.
B) They were all charismatic leaders.
C) They were elected to the positions they held.
D) They were all ultimately successful in their ambitions.
Question 7Felix tends goats in Peru, while his wife, Maria, takes care of the family crops. John is a nurse in France and his wife, Sonia, is a midwife. Based on cross-cultural studies, whose work would be given more prestige in their respective societies?
A) Maria's and Sonia's
B) Felix's and Sonia's
C) Felix's and John's
D) Maria's and John's