A. politics
B. law
C. personality
D. social change

A. the N.A.A.C.P
B. the N.R.A
C. sharpshooters at a pistol range
D. all the redheads currently imprisoned in the U.S

A. may occur within the confines of a single role
B. may result from faulty role performance
C. may occur when entrenched statuses become altered
D. all of the above

A. estate systems in feudal Europe
B. industrial societies like the United States
C. occupationally-based caste systems as in pre-modern India
D. A and C only

A. statuses are ascribed
B. authority is hierarchical
C. statuses are ranked
D. roles are scripted

A. rules and regulations
B. group situations and the positions of individuals
C. patterns of actions
D. all of the above

A. explicit standards of quality control must be imposed by management
B. employees are given too much discretion
C. small organization inevitably become bureaucracies
D. vertical hierarchies of power are too sluggish

A. the military prisons and mental hospitals
B. businesses and industries of all types
C. professional and religious organizations
D. all of the above

A. agrarian
B. pastoral
C. hunting and gathering
D. horticultural

A. may be analyzed at the microsocial and the macrosocial levels
B. is a fixed set of rules?
C. is sometimes used interchangeably with social structure
D. is microsocial macrosocial and interchangeable with social structure