Global Social Problems
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Course Introduction
Global Social Problems examines the major social issues that transcend national boundaries and impact populations around the world. The course explores topics such as poverty, inequality, migration, environmental challenges, health disparities, and human rights. Students analyze the root causes and consequences of these problems, considering perspectives from sociology, economics, and political science. Emphasis is placed on understanding the complex interplay between local and global factors, and the ways in which international organizations, governments, and grassroots movements contribute to addressing these challenges. Through case studies and discussions, students develop critical thinking skills and explore potential solutions for promoting social justice and sustainable development worldwide.
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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) According to the __________ perspective on social problems,an individual's or group's definition of the situation is central to understanding the actions of that individual or group.
A)functionalist
B)conflict
C)interactionist
D)normative
E)social agreement
Answer: C
Q2) A sociologist interacts actively with a group being studied.This research method is referred to as __________.
A)group dynamics
B)survey research
C)participant observation
D)demographic study
E)social experimentation
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Problems of Health and Healthcare
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Q1) 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
Q2) Every opinion poll conducted about how Americans actually felt about the Terry Schiavo case showed that strong majorities believed that __________.
A)life support should not have been removed,because we need to create a "culture of life" rather than of death.
B)the government should intervene in such cases to ensure that the person has the "right to stay alive"
C)the courts acted unwisely
D)people in a vegetative state have a "right to live"
E)the courts had acted wisely,and government should not interfere in highly personal,emotional issues
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Problems of Mental Illness and Treatment
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Q1) Alternative views of mental illness include __________.
A)the medical model
B)the deviance approach
C)the idea that mental illness is not a disease
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) In the Rosenhan investigation of "pseudo-patients" admitted to mental hospitals,the pseudo-patients,observing interaction between staff and patients,felt that the atmosphere in the hospital produced a sense of __________.
A)care and concern
B)powerlessness and depersonalization
C)politeness and cordiality
D)brutality and degradation
E)coldness and efficiency
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) One of the more successful treatment programs for alcoholics is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).What are the features of this program that make it a success? What are the major limitations of AA?
Q2) According to the "stepping stone" interpretation of marijuana use,__________.
A)marijuana use involves a desire to physically move while "stoned"
B)using marijuana is a step on the path to secrecy and crime
C)marijuana use brings one into contact with criminals
D)marijuana use inevitably leads to the use of hard drugs,like heroin
E)getting "stoned" is a step on the path to true consciousness
Q3) Describe the basic differences between problem drinking and alcoholism.
Q4) In 2003,about half of all twelfth-graders and ________ percent of ninth-graders reported that they had drunk alcohol in the past month.
Q5) List and describe the commonly abused illegal drugs in the United States.Which are the most dangerous? Why?
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Chapter 5: Crime and Violence
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Q1) The philosophy of crime control based on the idea that offenders should be "paid back" with suffering in return for the suffering they caused others is termed
A)rehabilitation and reprisal
B)retribution and deterrence
C)persuasion and payback
D)prevention and retribution
E)incapacitation and reckoning
Q2) Which of the following is the CORRECT order (from highest to third-highest)of the sources of illegal revenue of organized crime?
A)drugs,prostitution,gambling
B)pornography,prostitution,gambling
C)gambling,loansharking,drugs
D)loansharking,drugs,gambling
E)drugs,loansharking,prostitution
Q3) There are three major sources of data on crime.Describe these sources and compare and contrast their findings.
Q4) Organized crime is an important part of American society.Why does organized crime exist and persist in the United States?
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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) Some of the poor fall below the poverty line because of the loss of a job,or death,disability,or desertion of a spouse.This is referred to as __________ poverty.
A)crisis
B)fractured-family
C)event
D)fateful
E)part-time
Q3) Construct a profile of the poor in American society.Who are the most likely to be poor? How do various groups of people that are more likely to be in poverty compare using basic socioeconomic indicators?
Q4) What is "event poverty"? Analyze the effect of the 2008 economic recession and mortgage crisis on poverty levels in the United States.
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Chapter 7: Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) Which is the principal characteristic of a minority group?
A)small numerical size
B)cultural distinctiveness
C)group out-marriage
D)a sense of group consciousness
E)subordinate status
Q2) Sometimes aggression cannot be directed at the real source of frustration but is redirected toward a similar but safer and more convenient target.In this situation,aggression involves __________.
A)submission
B)rejection
C)a scapegoat
D)reorientation
E)stereotyping
Q3) The Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act were passed during the __________.
A)Truman presidency from 1945-1952
B)Eisenhower presidency from 1952-1960
C)Kennedy-Johnson presidencies from 1960-1968
D)Nixon-Ford presidencies from 1968-1976
E)Reagan presidency from 1980-88
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Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) According to the authors of your text,most socialization __________.
A)is consciously imparted through the educational system
B)is programmed into the individual before birth
C)takes place during interaction with other people
D)involves nonverbal communication
E)involves exposure to the mass media
Q2) According to a recent random sample survey of 2,064 public school students in eighth through eleventh grades __________.
A)83 percent of girls and 79 percent of boys report having experienced harassment
B)nearly all students (96 percent)say they know what harassment is,and boys' and girls' definitions do not differ substantially
C)sexual harassment is an ongoing experience for many students: over one in four students experience it often
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q3) How have traditional sex roles defined femininity and masculinity? How have recent changes redefined sex roles? Give some specific examples.
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Chapter 9: An Aging Society
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Q1) It has been charged that the mass media,especially television,reinforces ageism with their depictions of the elderly.Provide some examples of this.Then,give some examples where television content portrays the elderly as alert,competent,and productive.
Q2) The official title of the 2010 healthcare reform law is the __________.
A)Older Americans Act
B)Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C)Patient Protection and Transparency Improvement Act
D)Nursing Home Protection and Affordable Care Act
E)Elder Retired Protection and Transparency Act.
Q3) Over the next 25 years,the ratio of retirement-age people to working-age adults will
A)fluctuate wildly
B)stabilize
C)decrease slightly
D)decrease substantially
E)undergo a substantial,steady increase
Q4) Which identifiable subgroups of the elderly can be identified in the United States? How are the elderly distributed geographically,economically,etc.?
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Chapter 10: The Changing Family
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Q1) List and describe the basic social problems related to family life.
Q2) In the United States today,the median age of women marrying for the first time is approximately __________ years;and for men,approximately __________ years.
A)18.4;21.6
B)21.1;20.3
C)22.3;23.8
D)25.8;27.1
E)29.9;31.4
Q3) Social policy related to the problems of families can be divided into four major categories.Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A)divorce law and alimony
B)contraceptive technology
C)efforts to reduce the rate of illegitimacy
D)programs to assist low-income families
E)child care and family support policies
Q4) In what ways are black families different from white families? How do these differences contribute to a perception of the troubled black family?
Q5) Describe the ongoing debate over divorce law.
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Chapter 11: Problems of Education
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Q1) 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
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) 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?
Q4) How do social institutions respond to change? How are educational institutions in the United States responding to change?
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Chapter 12: Problems of Work and the Economy
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Q1) Many workers experience short spells of unemployment;they may be temporarily laid off from a factory job due to factors such as seasons of the year or temporary responses of employers to falling demand for their products.Economists call this "__________ unemployment."
A)structured
B)cyclical
C)part-time
D)temporary
E)relative
Q2) __________ means that only the assets of the corporation are liable to seizure in the case of economic failure or wrongdoing.
A)Limited liability
B)Corporate immunity
C)Interlocking directorate guarantee
D)Loophole
E)Open share
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) Laws passed by Congress in 1996 deny welfare benefits to legal immigrants who
A)are not U.S.citizens
B)cannot write their own name
C)cannot read
D)refuse to take an Oath of Compliance
E)have a criminal record
Q2) __________ leads the world in the number of immigrants entering the country.
A)The Soviet Union
B)The United States
C)China
D)Japan
E)Great Britain
Q3) 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?
Q4) Several laws have been passed at both federal and state legislature levels to address the problem of illegal immigration.Give examples of these laws,and mention their primary effects.
Q5) What are undocumented immigrants? Give examples.
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Chapter 14: Technology and the Environment
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Q1) 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
Q2) Environmental __________ refers to the presence of toxic agents in the environment in kinds and qualities potentially damaging to humans or to other organisms.
A)excretion
B)pollution
C)deterioration
D)adjustment
E)destruction
Q3) What are the major contributors to water pollution? How do they affect human beings,the economy,and the ecosystem?
Q4) Define technology.Of what does it consist? In general,how does it affect society?
Q5) What is transhumanism? Provide some examples of transhumanism.
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Chapter 15: War and Global Insecurity
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Q1) Worldwide opinion polls conducted in 2007 found _________ people outside of America were favorable toward American policies.
A)over 80 percent of B)approximately 50 percent of C)less than 30 percent of D)few
E)None of the above
Q2) Nations whose governments refuse to adhere to the rule of law either on the domestic or international stage,and routinely threaten their own citizens and those of other nations with violence and terror are known as ________ states.
A)demoniac
B)hebephrenic
C)unstable
D)rogue
E)miscreant
Q3) How has technology affected the ways in which wars are waged? Provide some specific examples.
Q4) What are the direct and indirect effects of war? How will nuclear war differ?
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