You Enroll in a Freshman Introduction to Sociology Course at Your

question 89

Multiple Choice

You enroll in a freshman Introduction to Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students with a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?

• A) written rules and regulations
• B) impersonality
• C) division of labor
• D) hierarchy of authority

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive

Events or conditions that cannot occur simultaneously or cannot both be true at the same time.

Addition Rule

A principle in probability theory that determines the probability of the occurrence of at least one of two events, taking into account their joint probability if they are not mutually exclusive.

Probability

A numerical quantification of the likelihood that a particular event will occur, often expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 1 indicates certainty.

Rolling a Pair

The act of throwing two dice simultaneously and observing the outcome, often used in probability calculations.