Social Problems Study Guide Questions
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This course offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary social problems affecting individuals and communities, including poverty, inequality, crime, discrimination, health, environmental challenges, and family disruptions. Students will analyze the roots and consequences of these issues using sociological theories and evidence-based research. The course encourages critical thinking about the role of societal structures, policy-making, and collective action in addressing and resolving these social challenges, while fostering awareness of local, national, and global contexts.
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Drugs in American Society 9th Edition by Erich Goode
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Chapter 1: A History of Drug Use
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Q1) The drug that is consumed the greatest number of times in the U.S.is:
A) alcohol
B) the nicotine in tobacco
C) the prescription amphetamines
D) the prescription narcotics
E) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Of the following,the drug that is taken the most sporadically,on a once-in-a-while basis,that is,has the lowest "loyalty" rate is:
A) marijuana
B) alcohol
C) the nicotine in tobacco
D) the amphetamines
E) LSD
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: A History of Drug Control
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Q1) The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was originally designed to:
A) address drug research,rehabilitation
B) stamp out all illicit drug abuse
C) increase the power and reach of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
D) transfer authority of drug enforcement to the state level
E) decriminalize the possession and sale of all then-illicit drugs
Answer: A
Q2) Which comes first-the chicken or the egg? We see a time-ordered relationship between the use of psychoactive substances,both legal and illegal,and public opinion favoring drug legislation.Which is the cause-the use,or public opinion favoring more restrictive legislation? Justify your argument.
Answer: Answers will vary
Q3) Which of the following was the most common ingredient in a number of 19<sup>th</sup> century soft drinks?
A) Ecstasy (MDMA)
B) marijuana
C) cocaine
D) heroin
E) methamphetamine
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Pharmacological Perspective
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Q1) Which of the following is cross-tolerant with heroin?
A) alcohol
B) morphine
C) marijuana
D) LSD
E) psilocybin
Answer: B
Q2) Psychedelics are also called:
A) euphoriants
B) general depressants
C) disassociative anesthetics
D) hallucinogens
E) analgesics
Answer: D
Q3) Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)is an important consideration when assessing the harm or damage that a drug inflicts on its users and the user's peers.Weigh the relative harm that tobacco and alcohol inflict,in the light of YPLL.Do the same for the legal drugs versus the illegal drugs.Does the factor of YPLL significantly change our previous estimates of the picture of drug harm?
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 4: The Sociologist Looks at Drug Use
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Q1) A Schedule I drug is one that the government defines as having:
A) medical utility and a low potential for abuse
B) no medical utility but a low potential for abuse
C) medical utility but a high potential for abuse
D) no medical utility and a high potential for abuse
E) none of the above
Q2) Taking an amphetamine,without prescription,to cram all night for a final exam is an example of:
A) illegal recreational use
B) legal recreational use
C) illegal instrumental use
D) legal instrumental use
E) none of the above
Q3) Since 2000,the percentage of junior high school and high school students who use Ecstasy and the other club drugs has:
A) increased
B) decreased
C) remained stable
D) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year
E) none of the above
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Chapter 5: Drugs in the Media
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Q1) Media stories on the use of PCP in the 1970s tended to emphasize that the use of the drug would cause the user to:
A) die of a drug overdose.
B) progress to more dangerous drugs.
C) engage in multiple drug use and harm himself or herself as a result.
D) have psychotic episodes and engage in self-destructive behavior.
E) none of the above
Q2) In your opinion,which of the four theories of media bias best explains the enormous attention paid to crack in the 1980s? Be specific and detailed.
Q3) The effect caused by smoking crack cocaine in the 1980s that the media most emphasized was:
A) dying of an overdose of the drug
B) progressing to the use of other,more dangerous drugs
C) becoming addicted or dependent on the drug
D) becoming insane
E) using crack in conjunction with alcohol and becoming an alcoholic
Q4) Discuss some common themes that can be found during all the eras of drug stories,from marijuana use in the 1930s to methamphetamine use in the late 1990s to the early twenty-first century.
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Chapter 6: Studying Drug Use
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true? Eating ice cream and rates of rape in an area are:
A) statistically correlated but not causally related
B) causally related but not statistically correlated
C) both statistically correlated and causally related
D) neither statistically correlated nor causally related
E) none of the above
Q2) "Inferential" statistics:
A) describe what something is like in quantitative terms
B) describe what something is like in qualitative terms
C) avoid making causal inferences among their variables
D) measure cause-and-effect relationships among two or more variables or factors in qualitative terms
E) none of the above
Q3) The samples of all of these data sources are huge,numbering in each case in the thousands.Would the data be as useful if their samples were smaller,say,just a few hundred? Explain why or why not.Several of these data sources are drawn exclusively from metropolitan areas,which means they do not represent-they are not a cross-section of-the American population as a whole.Does this limitation restrict their utility? Why or why not?
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Chapter 7: Explaining Drug Use
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Q1) The social control theory of deviance,crime,and illicit drug use focuses on the following factor:
A) socialization into deviant values
B) hegemony by the powerful to shape laws and social control to their advantage
C) the actor's stake in conformity
D) the disjunction between the goal of success and the legitimacy of the means to achieve that success
E) the recent decay of the American economic structure,which reduces the likelihood of social mobility for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy
Q2) Which of the following is a "kinds of people" theory:
A) conflict theory
B) social disorganization theory
C) biological theories
D) anomie theory
E) subculture theory
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Chapter 8: Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco
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Q1) During the past 30 years or so,the number of years of potential life lost (YPLL)as a result of alcohol-related highway fatalities: A) has increased B) has decreased C) has remained stable D) has fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year E) remains unknown
Q2) Consider the fact that most of the public accepts the fact that alcohol consumption forms a continuum or spectrum,from occasional drinking to alcoholism,but the use of heroin and cocaine are considered "abuse," a kind of addiction.Discuss why this bifurcation takes place.
Q3) The tobacco plant is indigenous to which of the following continents or regions:
A) Australia
B) Europe
C) Africa
D) Asia
E) the Western Hemisphere
Q4) Why do you think such a strong relationship exists between the consumption of alcohol and engaging in risky,deviant behavior?
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Chapter 9: Prescription Drugs
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Q1) Non-psychoactive prescription drug types include the:
A) neuroleptics
B) sedatives,tranquilizers,and hypnotics
C) the antipsychotics
D) the depressants
E) none of the above; all are psychoactive
Q2) Sedative-hypnotic drugs include:
A) antidepressants
B) mood elevators
C) narcotics
D) barbiturates
E) antipsychotics
Q3) Some drugs work mainly on the mind (the so called "mind" drugs)while others work mainly on the body ("body" drugs).Which of the following is mainly a "body" drug:
A) Valium,a benzodiazepine
B) Lipitor,a lipid regulator
C) hydrocodone,an opiate
D) Seroquel,an antipsychotic
E) diazepam,a sedative-hypnotic-tranquilizer
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Chapter 10: Marijuana, Lsd, and Club Drugs
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Q1) The most principal psychoactive chemical in marijuana is:
A) LSD
B) PCP
C) MDMA
D) THC
E) GHB
Q2) Is marijuana a dangerous drug? Assess the evidence on both sides of the argument.
Q3) The drugs and drug types that are discussed in this chapter are included together because:
A) they tend to be used recreationally by more-or-less middle class persons
B) they are chemically closely related
C) they are psychopharmacologically closely related-they have more or less the same effects
D) the penalties for their possession and sale are,of all illicit drugs,the most severe E) they are likely to be legalized in the near future
Q4) A substantial number of authors of discussions of drug use regard PCP and MDMA (Ecstasy)as hallucinogens.Why? In contrast,the author of this chapter does not.Why not? Be specific and detailed.
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Chapter 11: Stimulants: Amphetamine, Methamphetamine,
Cocaine, and Crack
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Q1) In what region of the country is methamphetamine most likely to be used?
A) the Mid-Atlantic region of NJ,NY,DE,MD,DC,and PA
B) the New England states
C) the South
D) the West Coast states of CA,OR,and WA
E) the Midwest
Q2) Late in the nineteenth-century,Sigmund Freud,the "father" of psychoanalysis,wrote about and abused which of the following drugs?
A) amphetamine
B) methamphetamine
C) cocaine
D) crack
E) none of the above
Q3) Summarize the effects of amphetamine and supply at least one function or purpose that these drugs could help accomplish.In the U.S.at this time,would such instrumental use typically be legal or illegal? Why?
Q4) Spell out,with reference to the consumption of cocaine,how "classic" addiction,physical dependence,and behavioral dependence differ.Do the same with methamphetamine.
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Chapter 12: Heroin and the Narcotics
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Q1) Which of the following is not a narcotic drug?
A) morphine
B) methedrine
C) meperidine
D) methadone
E) None of the above; all are narcotic drugs.
Q2) Which of the following is used by a greater number of people-heroin versus all of the other narcotics added together?
A) Heroin.
B) All the other narcotics added together.
C) The two categories are used by about the same number of people.
D) This question cannot be answered; the answer is unknown.
E) none of the above
Q3) Together,the OTC painkillers aspirin,acetaminophen (Tylenol),and ibuprofen cause:
A) no DAWN ED episodes
B) tens of thousands of DAWN ED episodes
C) hundreds of thousands of DAWN ED episodes
D) millions of DAWN ED episodes
E) none of the above
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Chapter 13: Trafficking in Illicit Drugs
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Q1) What theories or models best explain the relationship between alcohol and violence?
Q2) During the 1990s,the crime rate in the U.S.declined sharply and precipitously.Do you think that changes in rates of drug use and abuse play any role in this decline? Explain.
Q3) Among ADAM-II's sample of arrestees:
A) most agree to be drug tested
B) most refuse to be drug tested
C) about half agree to be drug tested
D) an unknown proportion agree to be drug tested
E) none of the above
Q4) Drug researchers have proposed three models or explanations for the drug-crime nexus.Which one is the most adequate in explaining this link?
A) the enslavement model
B) the predisposition model
C) the intensification model
D) All are equally adequate in explaining this link.
E) All are equally inadequate in explaining this link.
Q5) What is the role of cocaine in violent behavior?
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Chapter 14: Law Enforcement, Drug Courts, and Drug Treatment
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Q1) Today,the majority of the illicit drugs brought into the United States from other countries originate from which of the following regions:
A) the Middle East
B) East Asia
C) the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia-Kazakhstan,Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan
D) Latin America
E) there is no single region from which the majority of all illicit drugs in the U.S.originate
Q2) Some observers have claimed that,in economic size,the drug trade is more lucrative than General Motors,more than the entire legal U.S.farm industry-in fact,the biggest industry on Earth.Is this true? Cite some facts and figures to address this claim.
Q3) In order for drug use to take place,the availability of a given drug is:
A) a necessary but not a sufficient condition
B) a sufficient but not a necessary condition
C) both a necessary and a sufficient condition
D) neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition
E) none of the above
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Chapter 15: Law Enforcement, Drug Courts, and Drug Treatment
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Q1) Evaluations of drug treatment programs have demonstrated a failure rate of:
A) zero percent-all programs are 100 percent effective
B) roughly 10-20 percent
C) roughly 50 percent
D) roughly 70-90 percent
E) 100 percent-no program successfully treats any of its patients
Q2) Which is the best drug treatment policy-the same program for all clients ("one size fits all")or a different program for different clients? Or is the truth somewhere in between?
Q3) Methadone is:
A) a stimulant that is used to treat methamphetamine abusers
B) a barbiturate that is used to treat alcoholism
C) safe,non-addicting,and without euphoric effect at any dosage
D) a narcotic that is used to treat narcotic addiction
E) none of the above
Q4) If drug courts are as effective as their supporters claim,why haven't they substantially reduced drug abuse to a minor social problem?
Q5) Predict what you believe the U.S.drug policy will look like a century from now.
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Q6) Should methadone be administered to all narcotic addicts? Why or why not?
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Chapter 16: Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction
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Q1) According to the text,criminalizing illicit drugs increases the "hassle factor," which:
A) is harmful to addicts and abusers and to society as a whole; all drugs should be depenalized.
B) keeps drugs hard to get,expensive,and increases the likelihood of arrest,and hence,decreases the rate of use of those drugs that are criminalized.
C) argues that some drugs should be legalized while others should be kept criminalized. D) is a major factor in keeping the poor in poverty.
E) none of the above
Q2) What factors limit law enforcement's capacity to eradicate drug use and distribution?
Q3) As a general rule,illegal drugs have:
A) a higher continuance rate than legal drugs
B) a lower continuance rate than legal drugs
C) the same continuance rate as legal drugs
D) an unpredictable continuance rate in comparison with legal drugs
E) none of the above
Q4) What are drug courts and how effective are they?
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