Groups, Networks, Organizations — Quiz

Which concept did Merton use to explain why military police were less satisfied with promotion prospects than aviators, despite objectively better chances?

In Granovetter's study of job-finding in a Boston suburb, which type of tie most often provided the information that led to a new job?

What does Perrow's concept of 'tight coupling' refer to in the context of organizational accidents?

Which of the following best describes DiMaggio and Powell's concept of mimetic isomorphism?

What did Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment demonstrate about the reduction of intergroup hostility?

According to Burt's structural-holes theory, what is the primary source of a broker's advantage?

What was the key finding of Song et al. (2019) about wage inequality and firms?

Watts and Strogatz's 1998 paper on small-world networks showed that average path length between any two nodes in such networks grows how with network size?

Explain what Selznick meant by co-optation and describe how it operated in the TVA case.

What is the difference between a group and a network as analytical concepts in meso-level sociology?

How did Andrews's study of Mississippi after 1965 demonstrate that formal policy change does not automatically produce on-the-ground change?

Drawing on at least four of the theorists or studies discussed in this topic, explain how the concepts of groups, networks, and organizations together help sociologists explain a major social outcome — such as inequality, political mobilization, or organizational change. Your answer should show how the three meso-level forms interact rather than treating them as entirely separate.