Chapter 01

Instructions

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Question 01

What is the primary focus of a theory?

a) The phenomenon of interest

b) A set of concepts

c) Organization

d) None of the above

Question 02

Subjectivism is most strongly associated with which perspective?

a) Classical

b) Modern

c) Symbolic-interpretive

d) Postmodern

Question 03

Which of the following ideas is most closely associated with symbolic-interpretive organization theory?

a) Progress myth

b) Competition

c) Deconstruction

d) Social construction

Question 04

Which perspective is associated with the epistemological assumption that meaning is fluid and cannot be fixed and therefore knowledge is indeterminate?

a) Modernism

b) Symbolic-interpretivism

c) Postmodern

d) Modernism, Symbolic-interpretivism and Postmodern

Question 05

A postmodernist is most likely to see an organization as:

a) a text.

b) a machine.

c) an organism.

d) a culture.

Question 06

To call attention to (surface) and then overturn (contradict or deny) the assumptions of an argument constitutes the postmodern method of:

a) deconstruction.

b) intertextuality.

c) decentering.

d) grand narrative.

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