practice Q week 6

Question 1

Which of the answers below is not needed to admit a functional explanation?

The explanans should be assumed to be a necessary condition
It should be compatible with the motives and incentives of individual actors
Existence of a higher order social system

Answer 1

It should be compatible with the motives and incentives of individual actors

Question 2

Which of the following descriptions is NOT a problem of functional explanations?

Functional explanations are logically inconsistent
Functional explanations confuse cause and effect
Functional explanations assume the phenomenon explained to be the only way in which a given function can be performed

Answer 2

Functional explanations are logically inconsistent

Question 3

Which of the following theories/fields of organizational research often relies on functional explanations?
Organizational sense making
Hermeneutics
Organizational ecology

Answer 3

Organizational ecology

Question 4

Which of the following levels of analysis is typically NOT used in functional explanations?

The level of the population
The level of the organizational type or category
The level of the individuals

Answer 4

The level of the individuals

Question 5

Which of the following examples is NOT an institutional fact?

Limited liability
Crypto currencies
CO2 emissions

Answer 5

CO2 emissions

Question 6

Which of the below terms can be best associated with Hermeneutics?

Interpretation
Choice
Explanation

Answer 6

Interpretation

Question 7

Which of the following research projects would NOT require a first-person perspective?

Understanding managerial motivations behind acquisition decisions
Understanding the performance consequences of gender diversity on the board
Understanding the reasons why women seem to make different career choices

Answer 7

Understanding the performance consequences of gender diversity on the board

Question 8

Which meta-theoretical perspective combines the positions of holism and explaining?

Rational choice
Social systems and functions
Social meaning

Answer 8

Social systems and functions

Question 9

In using functional explanation, one of the basic questions is that what justifies us to say that the social system exists? - This is a(n) ___ question.

logical
ontological
epistemological

Answer 9

ontological

Question 10

Which of the answers below best describes the difference between hermeneutics and social meaning theory?

Hermeneutics is about individualism and exogenously given norms, whereas social meaning theory is about social holism and endogenously given norms

Hermeneutics is about individualism and endogenously determined norms, whereas social meaning theory is about social holism and exogenously given norms

Hermeneutics is about social holism and endogenously determined norms, whereas social meaning theory is about individualism and exogenously given norms

Answer 10

Hermeneutics is about individualism and endogenously determined norms, whereas social meaning theory is about social holism and exogenously given norms