Social Problems Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Social Problems examines the major issues and challenges currently facing society, such as poverty, inequality, crime, substance abuse, discrimination, and environmental concerns. The course explores how these problems are defined, measured, and understood from sociological perspectives, and analyzes their impact on individuals and communities. Students will discuss the causes and consequences of social problems, review theoretical approaches, and evaluate potential solutions through policy and social action. This course aims to develop critical thinking skills and raise awareness about the complexities of addressing pressing societal challenges.
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Investigating Social Problems 2nd Edition by A. Javier Trevino
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Chapter 1: Sociology and Social Problems
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Q1) Race is not considered a demographic characteristic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In his classic study on the social problem of suicide,Émile Durkheim found that suicide rates are primarily influenced by ______.
A)social integration and social regulation
B)social integration and social unity
C)social regulation and social repression
D)social integration and social dysfunction
Answer: A
Q3) A collection of related concepts is called a(n)______.
A)social problem
B)research statement
C)abstract description
D)theory
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Poverty and Class Inequality
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Q1) The wealthiest 1% in the nation possess ______of the wealth.
A)36%
B)19%
C)21%
D)29%
Answer: D
Q2) The belief that wealth can buy influence,media access,and the support of policymakers best illustrates ______.
A)functionalism
B)symbolic interactionism
C)conflict theory
D)integrative theory
Answer: C
Q3) Functionalists argue some poverty is inevitable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Between 2009 and 2011,the most common country of origin for persons obtaining naturalized U.S.citizenship was ______.
A)Canada
B)England
C)Mexico
D)Brazil
Answer: C
Q2) ______ is the prediction that the more intergroup contact Whites have with members of racial/ethnic minority groups,the less likely they are to be prejudiced.
A)Discrimination hypothesis
B)Racialization theory
C)Contact hypothesis
D)Conflict theory
Answer: C
Q3) Blacks are the largest minority group in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Gender
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Q1) Tom always changes the conversation to talk about sports when his female colleagues begin talking about topics that do not interest him.This is an example of
A)accountability
B)sex roles
C)ethnomethodology
D)allocation
Q2) Which feminist famously advocated leaving Christianity behind as an institution deeply flawed by patriarchy?
A)Christine Williams
B)Mary Daly
C)Kathleen Gerson
D)Malala Yousafzai
Q3) ______ seeks to help women connect their personal experiences of gender exploitation with the larger political issue of the patriarchal structure of society.
A)Radical feminism
B)Ethnomethodology
C)Patriarchy
D)Consciousness-raising
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Chapter 5: Sexuality
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Q1) Throughout history,what society thinks about sex and what is considered acceptable sexual behavior have ______.
A)remained the same
B)changed
C)become more liberal
D)become more conservative
Q2) The commercial sex industry includes street prostitution,brothels,high-status escorting services,exotic dancing and strip clubs,Internet video camming,and pornography.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the structural functionalist perspective on sexual violence.Then describe the latent function for sexual violence.
Q4) What is black feminist theory? Thoroughly describe how mass media representations of Black sexuality may have harmful consequences.
Q5) A person must feel distressed to be diagnosed with sexual dysfunction.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Aging
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Q1) What are the basic tenets of the political economy of aging? How does this perspective frame the relationship between the aging population and the broader society?
Q2) All of the following are examples of agism EXCEPT______.
A)consistently depicting the elderly as slow or confused in television programs
B)not hiring a qualified individual because he or she is "too old"
C)requiring elderly employees to "hide their age" by dying their hair
D)taking an elderly relative to the doctor for a checkup
Q3) A recent article by Panruti et al(2015)offers insight into the societal consequences of the rapid expansion of the aging population in India.According to the authors,the emerging aging issues in India address fundamental needs of the growing elderly population.Briefly explain the three main emerging issues regarding the elderly population and why these issues are important.
Q4) The United States has one of the lowest percentages of people aged 65 and older in the industrialized world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is continuity theory? Describe how the aging process can be affected by levels of continuity.What are some of the consequences of discontinuity?
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Chapter 7: Education
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Q1) Research finds that unusually effective schools often have flexibility for teachers and administrators to experiment and the ability to adapt to new situations and problems.
A)True B)False
Q2) Community schools are designed to improve at-risk neighborhoods and emphasize a sense of collective efficacy that will benefit everyone within a community.
A)True B)False
Q3) As a consequence of state legal reforms efforts,______ states now have financing plans in which schools in low-income districts receive an average of ______ more funding than higher-income districts.
A)31;10%
B)27;8%
C)16;5%
D)20;7%
Q4) According to Raymond Rist (1977),how do teacher expectations affect student performance? Describe an educational policy (real or imaginary)that has or could result from this research.
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Chapter 8: Media
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Q1) Discuss the research on the relationship between television violence and violent behavior.In general,what does this research find? Then describe two factors that make it difficult to generalize research done on this topic in laboratory settings to what happens in the real world.
Q2) Research finds media exaggeration may contribute to moral panics in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______.
A)journalists pay more attention to events that are uncommon or statistically unusual
B)journalists overstate the extent/size of a social problem
C)reporters inaccurately use terms like epidemic or crisis
D)journalists quote multiple sources in their reporting of an issue
Q3) The amount of crime reporting in the media is not consistent with the actual rate of local crime.What causes this?
A)criminals aggressively seeking more publicity
B)journalists rely on crime stories to make day-to-day news production more predictable
C)local politicians demand more crime coverage from the media
D)there is a great deal more crime occurring today than in the past
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Chapter 9: Family
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Q1) ______ is a position that advocates traditional marriage and warns against the sexual revolution,teenage pregnancy,and same-sex marriage.
A)Marriage dearth
B)Marriage squeeze
C)Marriage movement
D)Marriage gradient
Q2) Which theory examines the developmental processes and outcomes as families move through a series of normative stages across the life course?
A)family ecology theory
B)family life course development theory
C)social exchange theory
D)family systems theory
Q3) Compared to non-cohabitors,unmarried partners are more likely to ______.
A)be over 50 years of age
B)have earned a college degree
C)attend religious services
D)have lived without a father in the home
Q4) What is social exchange theory? How does this theory relate to the concept of transactional sex?
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Chapter 10: Work and the Economy
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Q1) Compared to members of the permanent workforce,temporary workers are more likely to be all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A)younger
B)female
C)Black
D)a college graduate
Q2) The process through which business firms,political authority,and cultural patterns spread throughout the world is ______.
A)economics
B)globalization
C)free trade
D)NAFTA
Q3) ______ refers to the package of cognitive,physical,and social skills of individual workers.
A)Cultural capital
B)Human capital
C)Social capital
D)Economic capital
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Chapter 11: Crime
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Q1) Rather than using a case efficiency model of justice,______ courts make problem-solving their primary goal and orient their proceedings toward social justice.
A)traditional
B)corrective
C)specialized
D)collaborative
Q2) ______ is a theory of crime that asserts that all behavior is learned,both criminal and noncriminal.
A)Differential association theory
B)Labeling theory
C)Primary deviance
D)Secondary deviance
Q3) Educational programs,mental health counseling,drug and alcohol treatment,and anger management can best be described as examples of ______.
A)rehabilitation
B)general deterrence
C)retribution
D)incapacitation
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Chapter 12: Drugs
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Q1) Explain social disorganization theory and how it affects the social environment.
Q2) White young adults are more likely than other races to have used illegal drugs during their lifetime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) While Whites have higher rates of drug use,Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to experience drug dependence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) For marijuana,cocaine,hallucinogens,and illegal prescription drugs,______ young adults report the highest prevalence of use.
A)White
B)Black
C)Latino
D)Asian
Q5) Many European governments have implemented innovative approaches to address the employment,health,and legal costs associated with heroin injection.List these countries and thoroughly describe the type of programs these counties have created to address the concerns.
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Chapter 13: Health
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Q1) What is the medicalization of behavior? Discuss at least three ways medicalization influences how we think about behavior.
Q2) There are no biological markers for ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compared to men,women are more likely to ______.
A)delay visiting a doctor
B)live longer
C)underreport pain or other symptoms
D)skip checkups and examinations
Q4) Over 25% of school-age children have received a medical diagnosis of ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Alternative medicine shares many of the characteristics of orthodox medicine by focusing on institutional factors rather than on individual factors as the source of disease.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss Pierre Bourdieu's (1984)theory of the relationship of the body to class position in society.
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Chapter 14: The Environment
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Q1) ______is the implicit understanding that government will enact rules to make sure people are protected as society bounds progressively forward.
A)Social equity
B)Environmental blindness
C)Realism
D)Risk contract
Q2) ______ refers to the process of moving toxic waste from wealthy countries to economically and politically marginalized regions.
A)Ecological modernization
B)Environmental dispossession
C)Equity dispossession
D)Toxic colonialism
Q3) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected the sea level will rise by over 20 meters by 2100.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Globally,the warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Science and Technology
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Q1) ______ pays attention to the role of nonhuman actors in defining and regulating the context or place of science.
A)Social construction of technology
B)Interpretive flexibility
C)Actor-network theory
D)Material science
Q2) Industrial organizations pursuing genomics,robotics,and nanotechnology for profit are examples of ______.
A)technocracy
B)industrialized science
C)megamachines
D)robo-social problems
Q3) One common concern among most of the stakeholders involved with transgenic crops is the safety of the crops for human consumption.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How might a structural functionalist approach the study of science and social problems? Be sure to discuss cumulative advantage and the accumulation of cultural capital.
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Chapter 16: War and Terrorism
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Q1) According to the ______,participation in advanced consumer society reduces war with other prosperous countries.
A)Truman doctrine
B)NATO protocol
C)intrastate war principle
D)McDonald's theory of conflict resolution
Q2) The Global War on Terror focused primarily on ______.
A)integrating a series of military,political,legal,intelligence,and policy measures,with a focus largely on militant Islamic groups
B)integrating a series of military,political,legal,intelligence,and policy measures,with a focus largely on domestic terrorist groups
C)sociological strategies aimed toward counterterrorism
D)strategies targeted toward anti-Islamic groups
Q3) The primary motive of ______ is to control valuable resources.
A)national wars
B)wars between borders
C)ethnic cleansing
D)globalized intrastate wars
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Chapter 17: Urbanization
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Q1) Theorists associated with ______ are most likely to argue the city's form and growth come from decisions made by people and organizations that control wealth and other key resources.
A)structural functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)communal theory
Q2) All of the following are true of a gemeinschaft EXCEPT ______.
A)everyone knows all the other residents and their biographies
B)relationships are intimate and enduring,and interactions are guided by a mutual interest in the common good of the village
C)shared traditions and culture of the village,in addition to religious beliefs,function as the main instruments of social control
D)relationships are primarily associational and based on calculating,economic exchanges
Q3) Discuss Ferdinand Tönnies's concepts of a gemeinschaft and gesellschaft.Define each concept and discuss how relationships are formed and social order is maintained in each type of social arrangement.
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