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Terminology and Concepts in Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Quizzes of Contemporary Sociology

Definitions for various terms related to organizational behavior and sociology, including alienation, bureaucracy, coercive organization, dyad, ethnomethodology, expressive leader, and more. These concepts cover topics such as group dynamics, leadership styles, social ties, and organizational structures.

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TERM 1
alienation
DEFINITION 1
a sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness,
isolation and self-estrangement
TERM 2
bureaucracy
DEFINITION 2
focused on authority. Explicit rules and procedures. Hierarchy
of statuses.
TERM 3
coercive organization
DEFINITION 3
formal organization that people join against their will
TERM 4
dyad
DEFINITION 4
two member group
TERM 5
ethnomethodology
DEFINITION 5
procedures that rules and activities that people employ in
making social life and society intelligible to themselves and
others
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alienation

a sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness,

isolation and self-estrangement

TERM 2

bureaucracy

DEFINITION 2

focused on authority. Explicit rules and procedures. Hierarchy

of statuses.

TERM 3

coercive organization

DEFINITION 3

formal organization that people join against their will

TERM 4

dyad

DEFINITION 4

two member group

TERM 5

ethnomethodology

DEFINITION 5

procedures that rules and activities that people employ in

making social life and society intelligible to themselves and

others

expressive leader

a leader who focuses on overcoming interpersonal problems

in a group. Help tension and promoting solidarity

TERM 7

expressive ties

DEFINITION 7

socially links that are formed when we become emotionally

involved

TERM 8

formal organization

DEFINITION 8

a group formed just for accomplishing specific goals

TERM 9

group

DEFINITION 9

two or more people that share a feeling of unity and who are

bound together in relatively stable pattern

TERM 10

group think

DEFINITION 10

a decision making process where the members of a group

become so preoccupied with maintaining group consensus

that their faculties are impaired

mortification

a procedure in which rituals are employed by coercive

organizations render individuals vulnerable to institutional

control, discipline, and resocialization

TERM 17

negotiated order

DEFINITION 17

the understandings that people reach as they go about their

daily activities

TERM 18

out-group

DEFINITION 18

a group to which we do not identify and we do not belong

TERM 19

Parkinson's Law

DEFINITION 19

principle that says work expands to fill the time available for

its completion

TERM 20

primary group

DEFINITION 20

two or more people who enjoy a direct, intimate relationship

with one another

reference group

a social unit that is used for appraising and shaping our

attitudes, feelings and actions

TERM 22

relationship

DEFINITION 22

an association between people that lasts long enough that

they get linked together by a stable set of expectations

TERM 23

relative deprivation

DEFINITION 23

discontent associated with what we have and what we should

have

TERM 24

re-socialization

DEFINITION 24

process by which a person's old roles and identities are

stripped away and new ones are created

TERM 25

secondary group

DEFINITION 25

two or more people who are involved in an impersonal

relationship and have joined for a specific purpose

utilitarian organization

a formal organization set up to achieve practical ends

TERM 32

voluntary organization

DEFINITION 32

a formal organization that people enter and leave freely