Module 9 - Occupation in Groups and Communities

Question 1

mutual features of groups

Answer 1

 Respect,
 Connectedness,
 Belonging,
 Reciprocity,

Question 2

social groups

Answer 2

• shared characteristics such as age,

gender, social class, or religion

Question 3

community

Answer 3

bond among people with strongly similar

backgrounds and interests

Question 4

society

Answer 4

set of systems that govern connections between

those groups

Question 5

List Rubin’s structural characteristics of communities

Answer 5

• size
• focus
• relative stability
• concrete social structure
• participative and congenial social interactions

Question 6

list the biological forces prompting group living

Answer 6

• ecological niche
• competition
• cooperation

Question 7

ecological niche

Answer 7

an environment which a species can successfully adapt

Question 8

Game Theory

Answer 8

To determine the most likely strategy to be used by
players from a given set of rules and to find the best
strategy

Question 9

Altruism

Answer 9

the active donation of resources to one or

more individuals at cost to the donor

Question 10

list the basic dimensions of culture

Answer 10

• affect
• technology
• skills
• cognitive
• judgemental or normative

Question 11

mass society

Answer 11

communities that have deteriorated to a point where there is weak kinship, impersonal neighbourhoods

Question 12

social capital

Answer 12

set of informal values or norms shared
among members of a group that permits cooperation
among them