Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities MCQs

Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities MCQs

Answer these 20 Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities MCQs and assess your grip on the subject of Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities.
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1: Bonding Social Capital describes the _______ relationships that are inward-looking and tend to mobilize solidarity and in-group loyalty; they lead to exclusive identities and homogenous communities.

A.   Physical

B.   Solitude

C.   Individual

D.   Community

A.   Bridging Social Capital

B.   Bridging ethical Capital

C.   Bridging physical Capital

D.   Bridging anti-social Capital

3: A form of organization; considered by Max Weber to be the most efficient form of organization for goal accomplishment, based on formal rationality is called

A.   Pandemonium

B.   Mobocracy

C.   Bureaucracy

D.   Disorganization

4: Collective efficacy explains the capacity of community residents to achieve social control over the environment and to engage in collective action for the common good.

A.   True

B.   False

5: People bound either by geography or by webs of communication, sharing common ties, and interacting with one another is called

A.   Population

B.   Community

C.   Individual

D.   Sociality

6: A critical perspective on organizations explains that it sees organizations as instruments of _______ and domination, where conflicting interests are decided in favor of the most powerful members.

A.   Failure

B.   Exploitation

C.   Inactive

D.   Passivity

7: Which theory focuses on power issues in small groups, who gets valued resources and how fairly they are perceived as being distributed ?

A.   Mix Theory

B.   Exchange Theory

C.   Informative Theory

D.   Formal Theory

8: A collectivity of people with a high degree of formal structure working together to meet common goals is called

A.   Formal Organization

B.   In Formal Organization

C.   Community Organization

D.   Population Organization

9: Group Cohesiveness has the tendency of the group to stick together and be unified in pursuit of its objectives and the satisfaction of members’ emotional needs.

A.   True

B.   False

10: Group work Involves serving people’s needs by bringing them together in _______ groups.

A.   Large

B.   Small

C.   Average

D.   Mix

11: Interactional/Interpretive perspective that sees formal organizations as social constructions of reality, providing members with a sense of connection and meaning and reflecting the worldviews of the creators.

A.   True

B.   False

12: The idea that individuals participate in multiple communities and consequently have multiple senses of community is called

A.   Multiple Psychological Senses of Community (MPSOC)

B.   Multiple Physical Senses of Community (MPSOC)

C.   Multiple Psychological Security of Community (MPSOC)

D.   Multiple Points Senses of Community (MPSOC)

13: The expectations that group members have of other group members in terms of how they will act or ______in the group or how well they will perform a task is called performance expectations.

A.   Misbehave

B.   Halt

C.   Behave

D.   Misconduct

14: Which theory Focuses on the relationship between emotional unconscious processes and the rational processes of interpersonal communication in the group?

A.   Psychodynamic Theory

B.   Psychological Theory

C.   Psycho Ability Theory

D.   Psychoperpective Theory

15: A perspective that views the formal organization as a goal-directed, purposefully designed machine that maximizes _______ and effectiveness is called Rational Perspective on Organizations

A.   In Efficiency

B.   Efficiency

C.   Incompetence

D.   Sluggish

16: A community based on voluntary association rather than _______ is called a relational community.

A.   Disarrangement

B.   Geography

C.   Geopolitics

D.   None of above

17: A self-categorization theory explains the small groups that propose in the process of social identity development, one comes to divide the world into in-groups (those to which one belongs) and out-groups (those to which one does not belong) and to be biased toward in-groups.

A.   True

B.   False

18: Sense of community describes the perception of similarity with others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this _______ by giving to or doing for others what one expects from them, or the feeling that one is part of a larger, dependable and stable structure.

A.   Antagonism

B.   Interdependence

C.   Opposition

D.   Autonomy

19: Two or more people who interact with each other because of shared interests, goals, experiences, and needs is called

A.   Large group

B.   Small group

C.   Medium group

D.   Neutral group

20: In status characteristics and expectation states theory, any characteristics that are evaluated in the broader society to be associated with competence.

A.   True

B.   False

A.   Interactions

B.   Perspectives

C.   Thoughts

D.   Non-linkages

22: Focuses on the small group as a place where symbols are created, exchanged, and interpreted is called

A.   Symbolic Interaction Theory

B.   Non-Symbolic Interaction Theory

C.   Symbolic Perception Theory

D.   All of above

23: A system perspective on organizations builds the fundamental principle that the organization is in constant interaction with its multiple environments—social, political, economic, cultural, technological—and must be able to adapt to environmental change.

A.   True

B.   False

24: Territorial community is based on ________.

A.   Chorography

B.   Geography

C.   Topology

D.   All of these