The Strength of Weak Ties Refers To

question 51

Multiple Choice

The strength of weak ties refers to:

• A) the influence of family and primary groups even at a geographic distance.
• B) how institutions use bureaucratic rules to bind diverse people together.
• C) the likelihood of finding something you need through an acquaintance in a network.
• D) how pattern-driven human beings are because we copy one another in social action.

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Definitions:

Hemisphere

Half of a spherical or roughly spherical structure, especially one of the halves of the brain.

Caudate Nucleus

A curved, elongated nucleus located within the brain, playing a key role in various functions including motor processing, learning, memory, and emotion regulation.

Corpus Striatum

Caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus; so-named because of the striations caused by intermixing of gray and white matter, which result from the number of tracts crossing the anterior portion of the corpus striatum.

Subthalamic

Pertaining to the location or region under or beneath the thalamus in the brain, often referring to the subthalamic nucleus involved in motor control.