Praxis II: Sociology Exam Prep - Question List

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11. Among the following, who thought that Karl Marx emphasized class too much and instead, looked at the various struggles between groups like employers and unions?
  1. Wilbert Moore
  2. Kingsley Davis
  3. Ralf Dahrendorf
  4. Weber
12. Which of the following quotes can be attributed to Parkinson’s Law?
  1. “Bureaucracy is connected with everything else that gives our culture its uniqueness.”
  2. “In any hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
  3. “Modern bureaucrats are people pushing.”
  4. “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
13. Which of the following types of individuals may continue to accept their goals while constantly seeking new ways to attain these goals?
  1. The “innovator”
  2. The “conformist”
  3. The “rebellious”
  4. The “retreat”
14. Where are secondary industries, like lumber mills and fish canneries, where manufacturing is highly dependent upon a single natural resource likely to be located?
  1. Near transportation centers
  2. Centrally within thriving commercial market regions
  3. Close to the locations of the natural resources to be manufactured
  4. In residential zones
15. Who first distinguished between primary groups and secondary groups?
  1. J.L. Moreno
  2. Ferdinand Tonnies
  3. Charles Horton Cooley
  4. Robert Bales

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