Community Studies
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Community Studies explores the structures, dynamics, and challenges of communities, focusing on how individuals and groups interact within local, national, and global contexts. The course examines key concepts such as social cohesion, cultural diversity, inequality, and civic engagement, providing students with the tools to critically analyze community issues and develop strategies for positive change. Through practical case studies and participatory activities, students learn about community development, policy impacts, advocacy, and the roles of various organizations, preparing them for active involvement in building stronger, more inclusive communities.
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Social Problems 14th Edition by William Kornblum
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Chapter 1: Sociological Perspective on Social Problems
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Q1) The __________ perspective on social problems is based on the belief that social problems arise out of major contradictions,leading to contention between those who have access to the "good life," and those who do not.
A)functionalist
B)conflict
C)interactionist
D)social disorganization
E)social pathology
Answer: B
Q2) The "Wildcat Experiment," involving supported work for jail inmates,and Philip Zimbardo's simulated prison study,exemplifies __________.
A)survey research
B)demographic experiments
C)interview studies
D)field studies
E)social experiments
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Problems of Health and Healthcare
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Q1) When we face problems such as whether an elderly parent should be placed in a nursing home or if (or when)life-support systems should be stopped for a terminally ill relative,we deal with health-care problems at the __________ level.
A)hopeless or unsolvable
B)professional or technical
C)micro or individual
D)macro or societal
E)economic or moral
Answer: C
Q2) Until the mid-1980s,hospital costs rose at a dramatic pace,primarily because
A)of socialized medicine
B)hospitals had fewer reasons to keep costs down
C)of a lack of medical cost attainment
D)of capitalism
E)of Medicare
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Problems of Mental Illness and Treatment
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Q1) The mental hospital became the common and preferred place of treatment for mental illness during the __________.
A)late twentieth century
B)late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
C)late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
D)late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
E)mid-twentieth century
Answer: D
Q2) The two major approaches to the treatment of mental disorders are __________ and __________.
A)exercise;healthy diet
B)surgery;psychotherapy
C)drug therapy;involuntary institutionalization
D)voluntary commitment;involuntary commitment
E)psychotherapy;drug or electroconvulsive therapy
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) Which of the following statements about reforms in drug policy is FALSE?
A)Canada and the United Kingdom have made great strides in reexamining their drug laws.
B)Experience and research show that present laws on cannabis tend to criminalize large numbers of otherwise law-abiding members of ethnic minorities.
C)Evidence shows that most aspects of the War on Drugs are effective,especially the increased emphasis of law enforcement.
D)Powerful lobbies and advocates of harsh sentencing continually resist reforms that would reduce disparities in sentencing.
Q2) What programs have been established to treat alcoholism and problem drinking? Which have been more successful? Why?
Q3) Alcohol use has become thoroughly integrated into Western culture.Describe the ways that alcohol is incorporated into social and economic life.What problems are created by alcohol abuse?
Q4) Addiction,habituation,and psychological dependence are all terms that refer to different aspects of drug use and abuse.Describe how these terms have been used.Provide an accurate definition of each.
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Chapter 5: Crime and Violence
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Q1) In 2009,teenagers and young adults accounted for about __________ percent of arrests in the United States.
A)16
B)26
C)36
D)44
E)86
Q2) Although there are significant variations from one society to another,a review of numerous studies of crime in different countries concludes that males are __________ times as likely to be arrested as females.
A)2 to 5
B)3 to 15
C)5 to 50
D)10 to 100
E)50 to 1,000
Q3) Gender differences and age differences are found in arrests for crime.What are these and why do they exist? What recent trends are observable?
Q4) Rehabilitation is difficult to achieve in the setting of the modern prison.Why?
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Chapter 6: Poverty and Affluence
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Q1) The number of uninsured Americans rose by ______ million between 2004 and 2005.
A)1.3
B)2.5
C)5.3
D)7.4
E)8.2
Q2) By the turn of the century,the 400 richest Americans have amassed a total net worth of __________.
A)$50 billion
B)$100 billion
C)$200 billion
D)$500 billion
E)$1 trillion
Q3) Major employers and powerful political leaders are part of the __________ class.
A)upper
B)upper-middle
C)middle
D)working
Q4) There are many misconceptions held about people on welfare.List several of these misconceptions.What are the real facts?
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Chapter 7: Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) In essence,frustration-aggression involves __________.
A)selecting the strongest target for your aggression
B)having prejudice eliminate reason
C)selecting dominant group members for acts of aggression
D)displacing aggression toward a safer target
E)lynching the supposed perpetrator of a crime
Q2) How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 differ from those in 1957 and 1960?
A)Lyndon B.Johnson had an important role in the 1964 act.
B)The 1964 act provided ways to deny federal money to local government units that permitted discrimination.
C)The earlier acts did not cover discrimination against blacks.
D)The 1964 act covered schools as well as public facilities.
E)The earlier acts focused on voting,not economic discrimination.
Q3) What is racism? Give several examples to support your answer.
Q4) The Civil Rights Act was passed in
A)1954
B)1964
C)1974
D)1984
E)1994
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Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex.However,one major omission in this legislation was that __________.
A)it was not ratified by Congress
B)women were not covered
C)federal,state,and local governments were specifically excluded
D)black women were not covered
E)businesses with over 100 employees were not covered
Q2) __________ refers to the entire range of attitudes,beliefs,policies,laws,and behaviors discriminating against women (or men)on the basis of their gender.
A)Racism
B)Sex role activity
C)Genderism
D)Sexuality
E)Sexism
Q3) How does sexual stereotyping affect men and women? How does this process limit the options open to males and females in our society?
Q4) The goal: to create genuine sexual equality in American society.Design a social policy that is most likely to accomplish this goal.
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Chapter 9: An Aging Society
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Q1) The position of the elderly in the United States is MOST similar to __________.
A)young people who are not yet in the labor force
B)pregnant teenagers
C)working mothers
D)female-headed families
E)middle-aged females who work
Q2) The main factors that affect a population's general "youth" or "age" are
A)changes in the fertility rate
B)the infant mortality rate
C)the life expectancy of people at older ages
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q3) A study of suicides by elderly people in Florida determined that __________ are more likely to commit suicide than any other group.
A)married females
B)widowed males
C)married males
D)widowed females
E)single,never-married females
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Chapter 10: The Changing Family
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Q1) About __________ of all marriages begun during the past two decades will end in divorce.
A)one-eighth
B)one-fourth
C)one-third
D)one-half
E)two-thirds
Q2) According to the text's discussion of the difficulties couples encounter in juggling work and family roles,marital happiness __________ when children are born.
A)remains constant
B)fluctuates wildly
C)increases slightly
D)increases substantially
E)often decreases
Q3) Divorce rates have increased in the United States.Why is this so? What problems are created by divorce rate increases?
Q4) How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Act affect teen pregnancy? Did "welfare incentive" theory prove itself?
Q5) List and describe the basic social problems related to family life.
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Chapter 11: Problems of Education
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Q1) What are the features of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind program? Compare it to the Obama-Duncan and Race to the Top program,and discuss the pros and cons of both.
Q2) __________ percent of all American children between the ages of 7 and 15 are enrolled in school.
A)65
B)78
C)85
D)90
E)98
Q3) Which of the following groups has/have attained equal access to quality education?
A)blacks
B)Hispanics
C)Native Americans
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q4) Considering the American emphasis on education,why is our educational institution under such intense criticism today? Trace these criticisms.Are they valid? Why or why not?
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Chapter 12: Problems of Work and the Economy
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Q1) Multinational companies have created a "global factory" that is made possible by two kinds of technology.The first allows things to be transported quickly from place to place.The second __________.
A)permits profits to be hidden from national governments
B)divides the production process into component operations that can be moved to areas of cheap labor
C)allows the fabrication of products from synthetic materials,lowering raw material costs
D)allows investors to recover investments rapidly in speculative markets
E)trains workers in a single language,facilitating managerial control
Q2) Most of the new white-collar jobs that have been created are in which occupational group?
A)sales and retailing
B)advertising and public relations
C)marketing and merchandising
D)professional and clerical
E)management and investment
Q3) The 2008 economic recession was preceded by an era of financial risk,corporate crime,and lax regulation.Discuss the contribution of these events to the recession.
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Chapter 13: Population and Immigration
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Q1) Many of the lesser-developed world's people have come to have "rising expectations." How? About what? Are these expectations likely to be fulfilled? Why or why not?
Q2) In __________,Congress voted to increase immigration quotas,establishing totals of 170,000 per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere.
A)1948
B)1958
C)1968
D)1978
E)1988
Q3) In many less developed nations,a strengthening of the belief that current progress would continue to improve economic conditions occurred __________.
A)when the countries gained political independence from colonial powers
B)when the United States provided them with aid
C)before they were aware of AIDS
D)when they were left out of World War II
E)when they installed democratic governments
Q4) Explain the phenomenon of chain migration.Give examples to support your answer.
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Chapter 14: Technology and the Environment
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Q1) The earth's resources are finite;only a certain number of a given species can inhabit an environment.These are examples of a concept that is basic to understanding environmental stress,which is __________.
A)finiteness
B)interdependence
C)limits
D)complexity
E)balance
Q2) In 1991,Daniel Bell noted that "smart bombs" and computer-assisted weapons are technologies designed to __________.
A)accomplish widely distributed objectives
B)meet well-defined and very narrow objectives
C)solve today's social problems
D)protect us during the twenty-first century
E)provide autonomous technology
Q3) What is transhumanism? Provide some examples of transhumanism.
Q4) Explain how land degradation,noise,chemical hazards,and large-scale engineering projects threaten the well being of the earth and its inhabitants.
Q5) What is technological dualism? Provide a number of specific examples.
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Chapter 15: War and Global Insecurity
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Q1) The League of Nations and the United Nations are both examples of __________.
A)organizations of common markets
B)international police agencies
C)agencies of the West designed to promote capitalism
D)international agencies founded to aid poor nations
E)international agencies founded to promote cooperation among nations
Q2) In August of 1945,the first resolution passed by the United Nations was concerned with ________.
A)a way to end World War II
B)how to completely eliminate nuclear weapons
C)peace in the Middle East
D)food aid to poorer nations
E)how to stop the civil war in China
Q3) The Department of Homeland Security's was part of the largest reorganization of the federal government,and its mission is to __________.
A)prevent terrorist attacks within the United States
B)reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism
C)minimize the damage from attacks that do occur
D)aid in the recovery from any attacks that do occur
E)All the above
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