Question

1-Define and choose two terms (and explain why) that may assist you in the ability to evaluate business situation under a legal, social, and
economical perspective.

-Social Perspective
-Theory
-Symbolic Interaction
-Functional Analysis
-Conflict Theory
-Culture shock
-Ethnocentrism
-Cultural Relativism
-Folkways
-Mores
-Taboo
-Id
-Ego
-Super Ego
-Transitional adulthood
-Social class
-Social integration
-Stereotype
-In-groups
-Instrumental leader
-Expressive leader
-Authoritarian leader
-Democratic leader
-Laissez-faire leader
-Groupthink

2-According to Mead, learning to take the role of others entails three stages. Name and describe them:  
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4) More U.S. students are killed in school shootings now than 10 or 15 years ago.
5) Most rapists are mentally ill.
6) Couple who live together before marriage are usually more satisfied with their marriages than couples who do not live together before marriage.
7) Compared with women, men make more eye contact in face-to-face conversations.
8) Most husbands of employed wives who themselves get laid off from work take up the slack and increase the amount of housework they do.

9-According to Kohlberg, we go through a sequence of stages as we develop morality. Name and describe them:

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10) ___________ also foster identity by showing in-group members what they are not.
11) ____________ consist of social ties that link people together.
12) The term ______________ refers to how individuals affect groups and how groups influence individuals.
13) A _______, consisting of two people, is the most unstable of human groups, but it provides the most intense and intimate relationships.
14) _____________ is the study of how people make sense of everyday life.
15) In _____________, the focus is placed on large-scale features of social life.

16) What was your favorite topic in the first five chapters of your book and why?

Answer 1

1. Conflict Theory

The conflict theory is a social theory of the emergence of conflicts according to which power are unevenly distributed between groups in society and that these conflicts become the force behind social transformation. In the context of business and organisation, power can be understood as control of material resources and accumulated wealth by the executives an the higher management versus the menial wages or salary slabs of the workers or tertiary workers. These differences may create explicit awareness about one’s own social status relative to others in the organisation thereby leading to the workers’ feeling of dissatisfaction determined not just by class but also by other factors like race, gender, sexuality, culture, and religion.

A second concept which is of relevance to business is the idea of Laissez fair leaderships which is a type of leadership style in which leaders are liberals and non interfering in the activities of the group members. Such leaders provide guidance and actively monitor the group processes only when asked for help by the members such as in sitaution sof conflict or managing external liaisons with other companies. From the point of view of our discussion, the laissez -fair leader becomes worthy of a discussion because most of the organisations in capitalist societies value a leader who leaves the members to work independently. However, interestingly, this leadership style has been found to lead to the lowest productivity among group members and it may leave the employees feeling leaderless and therefore directionless in the absence of a direct and concrete line of control.