Social Change and Social Movements
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic processes of social change and the pivotal role of social movements in shaping society. Students will examine key theories and concepts related to collective action and analyze how grassroots activism, advocacy, and organized campaigns address issues of inequality, justice, and political transformation. Through historical and contemporary case studies from various regions and cultures, the course investigates the causes, strategies, and outcomes of major social movements. Emphasis is placed on understanding the motivations behind collective mobilization, the challenges movements face, and their impact on policy, culture, and social structure.
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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 labeling theory,the act of labeling a person or group deviant may cause society to suffer in which of the following ways?
A)Deviance is eliminated from society.
B)Labeling causes those who are labeled to avoid deviance,thereby deterring them.
C)The labeled may accept the definition of themselves as deviant and increase their deviance as a result.
D)The labeling has no effect because of the pro-criminal self-concepts of those labeled.
E)The labeling causes those who are labeled to become an important,powerful, Political force.
Answer: C
Q2) Social __________ are formal procedures designed to remedy social problems. A)solutions
B)structures
C)changes
D)stratifications
E)policies
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Problems of Health and Healthcare
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Q1) The "doughnut hole" in Medicare refers to ________.
A)a new,freestanding prescription drug plan that will be formulated under the new healthcare law.
B)drug coverage obtained by individuals with an extremely low income and no personal wealth,
C)the cost of drug expenditures that surpasses the federal subsidy received by retirees aged over 65 years who are more than $14,664.
D)none of the above
Answer: C
Q2) In 2007,expenditures on health care in the United States amounted to __________ per capita.
A)$2,341
B)$3,941
C)$5,241
D)$6,947
E)$10,541
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Problems of Mental Illness and Treatment
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Q1) Deinstitutionalization refers to __________.
A)preparing a person for entry into a mental hospital
B)discharging patients from mental hospitals directly into the community
C)removing mental illnesses from coverage under insanity defenses in the criminal law
D)making sure that juveniles do not serve time in prisons for adults
E)social practices that no longer have salience
Answer: B
Q2) In social scientific terms,mental illness refers to __________.
A)mental disorders that require hospitalization
B)mental disorders for which one sees a psychiatrist
C)sickness that places a person out of touch with reality
D)illness for which there is no cause
E)insane and irrational behavior
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) When the members of society have used a habit-forming substance for many years,that substance may not be classified as a drug by that society,even if it has been proven to be harmful.Which two drugs exemplify this statement?
A)cocaine and caffeine
B)heroin and marijuana
C)alcohol and tobacco (nicotine)
D)cocaine and heroin
E)marijuana and tobacco (nicotine)
Q2) The __________ intervention,a technique for intervening in the lives of alcoholics or drug abusers,is one of many "tough love" strategies that have emerged in recent years.
A)Johnson
B)Thompson
C)Ford
D)Clinton
E)Nixon
Q3) List and describe the commonly abused illegal drugs in the United States.Which are the most dangerous? Why?
Q4) Describe the basic differences between problem drinking and alcoholism.
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Chapter 5: Crime and Violence
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Q1) Sample surveys of Americans indicate that crimes reported to the police account for about __________ percent of actual offenses.
A)33
B)41
C)52
D)67
E)75
Q2) The text points out that crime remains a major concern of Americans,but citizens are beginning to question certain recent policies.Which of the following is NOT one of those policies?
A)mandatory sentences
B)federal allocations for more police
C)the "three strikes" policy
D)some aspects of the war on drugs,which have resulted in large increases in the prison population
E)All of the above are mentioned in the text.
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) Many social scientists believe that the situation of the poor is likely to become still worse.Which of the following explains this prediction?
A)Technological changes will eliminate certain kinds of jobs.
B)The middle and upper classes are reluctant to share their wealth with the less fortunate members of society.
C)The general attitude of Americans toward poverty is negative and unlikely to change.
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q2) For Karl Marx,the capitalist's search for profits led to adopting automation to lower wage costs.In his view,this displaced workers in large numbers from their jobs and drove down wages for all workers.In Marx's terms,this situation created __________.
A)a reserve army of unemployed people
B)a more docile bourgeoisie
C)a smaller lumpenproletariat
D)a wealthier proletariat
E)more employment and larger profits
Q3) Why is immigration associated with poverty?
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Chapter 7: Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
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Q1) Affirmative action has been a way to redress the discrimination that minority groups have received.What is affirmative action,and how does it work? What are the arguments for and against this policy?
Q2) At all levels of education,minority group members earn less than their nonminority counterparts,and the text observes that even better than a "sheepskin" is __________.
A)a technical credential
B)practical,"street smarts"
C)to be independently wealthy
D)to apprentice with a majority-group member
E)a white skin
Q3) Which of the acts listed below that prevents minority groups from having equal access to housing)have been judged to be illegal?
A)racial steering
B)restrictive covenants
C)blockbusting
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q4) What is racism? Give several examples to support your answer.
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Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality
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Q1) Recent surveys of sexual behavior in the United States and other Western societies have found that __________ percent of men indicate that they have had same-sex relations
A)1 to 4
B)5 to 10
C)10 to 15
D)15 to 20
E)over 20
Q2) According to the text's discussion of sexism and employment,__________.
A)for the past several decades,men and women have received the same amount of schooling
B)men hold more bachelor's and graduate degrees than women do
C)more men than women drop out of high school
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q3) Sexism has several sources.Define sexism and describe its various sources.
Q4) What are some of the advancements that the women's movement in the United States has made since it was officially founded in 1848?
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Chapter 9: An Aging Society
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Q1) The main source of income for the elderly is from __________.
A)investments
B)Social Security
C)wages
D)private pension plans
E)welfare payments
Q2) The elderly frequently have difficulty adjusting to their new social role as aged persons.The most important reason for this difficulty is that __________.
A)they are experiencing disassociation related to senility
B)the ability to play roles diminishes with age
C)they lack positive role models and reference groups upon which they can pattern their behavior
D)physical stamina diminishes and they must stay at home
E)they suffer from illness
Q3) How have social changes associated with industrialization changed the role played by the elderly in American society?
Q4) Do you think people should have the right to die? What are your reactions to physician-assisted suicide?
Q5) Are the aged a minority group? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: The Changing Family
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Q1) According to the text's discussion of juggling work and family responsibilities,__________.
A)on the average,women are working fewer hours a week than men,even though the percentage in the 50 hours or more category has doubled since 1970
B)polls indicate that women with young children would prefer to be working than to stay at home
C)women who are childless and working full-time suffer more stress than their counterparts who are mothers
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q2) In the United States,teenage birth rates have __________.
A)increased by 60 percent
B)fallen by more than two-fifths in the past 15 years
C)increased by 25 percent
D)increased,but then stabilized
E)remained the same
Q3) Divorce rates have increased in the United States.Why is this so? What problems are created by divorce rate increases?
Q4) Describe the ongoing debate over divorce law.
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Chapter 11: Problems of Education
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Q1) Three years after the federal No Child Left Behind Act went into effect,fourth-grade minority students showed the greatest improvement in math scores;but according to test experts,it would take __________ years to close the existing gap between minority and nonminority students in math.
A)25
B)50
C)100
D)200
E)500
Q2) Americans generally believe that modern discoveries and practices can solve problems.In the schools,this has produced the use of cost accounting,systems analysis,and computer technology.This involves what your text refers to as
A)the technological fix
B)the use of science as religion
C)the business solution
D)modernization
E)the tyranny of experts
Q3) Compare and contrast the basic sociological approaches on educational problems.Give specific examples.
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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) Workers in the Bell Telephone system have blamed which development for eroding the
Family culture of "Ma Bell"?
A)computer technology
B)the shift from manufacturing to service
C)the increasing specialization of labor
D)the complexity of the division of labor
E)unionization
Q3) What are the major problem aspects of work? How do they affect other aspects of social life?
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Chapter 13: Population and Immigration
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Q1) The gap in living standards between the "have" (wealthy,industrialized)and the "have-not" (poor,lesser industrialized)nations is __________.
A)imaginary
B)part of communist propaganda
C)widening
D)diminishing
E)staying the same
Q2) The __________ refers to the number of births per 1,000 in the population.
A)crude birthrate
B)neonatal rate
C)fecundity rate
D)fertility ratio
E)population growth rate
Q3) The world's population is growing because __________.
A)fertility (birth)rates are higher than in the past
B)death rates have declined
C)people have in-migrated from other places
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
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) Radioactive wastes must be stored safely for __________ years before they become harmless.
A)at least 10
B)a minimum of 50
C)about 100
D)at least 500
E)up to 1,000
Q2) What are the major contributors to water pollution? How do they affect human beings,the economy,and the ecosystem?
Q3) By 2000,an estimated 36 percent of the earth's land was threatened by desertification.This illustrates the problem of __________.
A)toxic waste disposal
B)air pollution
C)land degradation
D)the greenhouse effect
E)wasteland use
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 transhumanism? Provide some examples of transhumanism.
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Chapter 15: War and Global Insecurity
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Q1) A key function of the United Nations is to __________.
A)set prices on the international markets
B)distribute aid to the poor
C)settle disputes between or among nations
D)set military budgets
E)keep track of the number and location of nuclear weapons
Q2) The initials SALT stand for __________.
A)Stop All Low-level Thermonuclear Bombs
B)Set All Limits Today
C)Set A Limitation Tabulation
D)Slow Arms' Logistic Tempo
E)Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Q3) Why is the renewed outbreak of intense nationalism in many parts of the world the most serious force which increases the likelihood of terrorism? Give examples.
Q4) Why is domestic terrorism so frightening? Discuss the relationship between the Internet and terrorism.Give some examples.
Q5) Define and discuss terrorism.What forms of terrorism can be identified? How can they best be countered or controlled?
Q6) What are the direct and indirect effects of war? How will nuclear war differ?
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