Social Change and Social Policy
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between social change and social policy, examining how shifts in societal values, structures, and demographics influence policy formation and implementation. Students will analyze historical and contemporary case studies to understand how social movements, economic developments, and political ideologies drive legislative and institutional reforms. Key topics include the role of government and advocacy groups, the impact of globalization, and the intersection of policy with issues such as inequality, health, and education. Through critical discussions and applied projects, learners will gain insights into the processes shaping policy responses to social challenges and the pathways for fostering equitable change.
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Introduction to Social Problems 10th Edition by Thomas J. Sullivan
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Chapter 1: Approaches to the Study of Social Problems
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Q1) A social condition is considered to be a social problem if it ________.
A)threatens a group's values
B)cannot be remedied by social action
C)poses a threat to an individual's values and beliefs
D)affects a small number of people
Answer: A
Q2) The government of Castleton is in the process of formulating a new policy to address the problem of child labor.They have assessed the possible positive and negative outcomes of various policy alternatives and have formulated a policy that they believe would achieve the desired goals in an effective manner.According to the stages in the process of policy formulation,what is the next stage in the process of formulating this new policy?
A)policy formulation
B)policy implementation
C)evaluation
D)closure
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Concentration of Power: Economic and Political Institutions
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Q1) According to the international stratification system,what are the characteristics of semiperipheral nations?
Answer: Semiperipheral nations are large or have some special resources.They fall somewhere between the core and peripheral nations-less dependent on the core nations and sometimes acting as core nations themselves.They are also known as third-world or less-developed countries.
Q2) What is the influence of large corporations on the social and economic policies of smaller nations?
Answer: Governments in smaller nations may deliberately avoid political and economic policies inconsistent with the goals of large corporations.In these ways,social policies in some nations may result not from the democratic wishes of the populace but from implied or explicit demands from powerful corporations.Corporations have intervened in the democratic process of nations by supplying campaign funds to particular political candidates or,in a few cases,by attempting to overthrow elected officials.
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Chapter 3: Family-Related Problems
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Q1) Why are communal families considered to be a threat to a capitalist economy?
Answer: Communal families are based on the belief in common ownership of at least some material goods.In such families,fewer consumer goods would be needed because they would be shared,and thus the market for these goods would be smaller,which would hurt the interests of capitalists.This threatens the basic value of private property on which a capitalist economy rests.
Q2) Nuclear families serve the interests of capitalist economic institutions because they ________.
A)maximize the number of consumption-oriented units in society
B)stress the importance of family values over that of individual values
C)are often male dominated
D)emphasize common ownership of material goods
Answer: A
Q3) From the conflict perspective,family forms change when ________.
A)existing family forms cause dysfunction and disorganization in the society
B)people are socialized to accept their society's form of the family as natural
C)new groups acquire the power necessary to gain acceptance for a new form of family
D)people want a drastic change in society to establish stability and equilibrium
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Health and Illness
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Q1) A diagnostic process is said to be reliable if ________.
A)it involves the use of low cost,high quality services
B)the same diagnosis is made of the same patient by different professionals
C)it uses all three perspectives on illnesses to derive results from a patient's analysis
D)a doctor is able to singly identify the cause for a patient's mental illness
Q2) ________ is the treatment of people's illnesses after they become ill.
A)Preventive medicine
B)Epidemiology
C)Curative medicine
D)Dystrophy
Q3) Expensive medical services in the country of Namiru are reserved for people who meet certain criteria.Such services are offered only to those who,in turn,provide a greater number of services to maximum other people if they live.Namiru's health-care policy is based on the ________.
A)utilitarian principle
B)merit principle
C)egalitarian principle
D)compensatory justice principle
Q4) Why was the public option proposal included in the Affordable Care Act dropped?
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Chapter 5: Education, Science, and Technology
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Q1) ________ refers to research that studies the impact of technology on our physical,social,and ethical environments and seeks solutions to social problems that arise from technological development.
A)Technology assessment
B)Appropriate technology
C)Mechanization
D)Cybernation
Q2) Schools following the back to basics approach to education are most likely to ________.
A)reduce the amount of face-to-face interactions between students and teachers
B)let students decide if they want to take up academically demanding courses
C)reduce the number of elective courses and have more required courses
D)eliminate standardized examinations
Q3) What is technology? What are the two types of technologies?
Q4) According to the interactionist perspective,what are the consequences of labeling?
Q5) Explain how school systems vary in the United States and other countries in terms of the centrality of the planning and decision making.
Q6) What is gene splicing? What are its uses?
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Chapter 6: Poverty
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Q1) How can the relative nature of poverty be taken into account?
Q2) ________ refers to the increase in the rates of unemployment caused by economic changes that are brought about by technological innovation.
A)Absolute deprivation
B)Relative deprivation
C)Structural unemployment
D)Cyclical unemployment
Q3) Which of the following is a true statement about the cultural definition of poverty?
A)It excludes people who are defined as poor based solely on economic criteria..
B)It identifies the poor as those who are permanently and unwillingly poor.
C)It applies strict economic definitions to explain the ethnic influence of poverty.
D)It states that poverty has become less chronic.
Q4) Describe the reasons for high poverty among children in the United States.
Q5) Describe the use of the absolute definition of poverty.
Q6) Describe a key factor responsible for the poverty of racial and ethnic minorities.
Q7) Give a possible devastating consequence of temporary unemployment.
Q8) Explain why social mobility in the United States is mostly short range.
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Chapter 7: Race and Ethnic Relations
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Q1) A similarity between prejudice and discrimination is that both ________.
A)arise due to racial differences
B)are based on irrational attitudes toward certain groups
C)affect the majority community in a society
D)result in the establishment of a pluralist society
Q2) A difference between institutionalized discrimination and internal colonialism is that institutionalized discrimination ________.
A)involves direct exploitation of minority groups by some dominant groups
B)occurs because of the minimum entrance requirements that bar minorities from jobs
C)is a psychological factor causing prejudice and discrimination
D)results from the competition between two groups for the same work at different wages
Q3) What was the attitude of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs)toward racial or ethnic diversity,and how did they treat people of other races?
Q4) Why is there a controversy over the use of the term race as a biological concept to identify a population that differs from others in terms of certain key genetic,hereditary traits?
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Chapter 8: Gender,Sexual Orientation, and Social Inequality
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Q1) Functionalists argue that it is not particularly useful to use sex as a criterion for allocating jobs in industrial and postindustrial societies because ________.
A)great physical strength is no longer necessary for most jobs in a highly automated society
B)both men and women have equal abilities for spatial-visual,verbal,and creative tasks
C)domination results due to the superior physical strength of men
D)economic competition contributes to sexual inequality
Q2) Paula,the managing director of a business firm,believes that men should not be hired for job positions such as nurse or secretary as it is considered a social oddity.She feels that men are not suited for such positions because they are unemotional and dominant.Such a stereotypical thought about men is known as ________.
A)anti-masculinism
B)androcentrisim
C)masculine mystique
D)androgyny
Q3) Discuss the basic idea of comparable worth and the controversies associated with it.
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Chapter 9: Age and Social Inequality
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Q1) What are the views of the opponents of age-based policies for receiving benefits?
Q2) Explain the concerns that the elderly have regarding the environment of nursing homes.
Q3) Why is training more extensive in industrial societies?
Q4) Which of the following was a characteristic feature observed in preindustrial societies?
A)People were economically dependent on their parents to make a living.
B)Kinship ties became less important,which led to a decline in the status of the elderly.
C)People joined the workforce after an extended period of education.
D)Extensive training was required to cope with complex technological advances.
Q5) The term ________ was originally coined to describe reactions to the elderly,but it applies to any group that experiences similar prejudice and discrimination.
A)chauvinism
B)ageism
C)racism
D)sexism
Q6) What are the reasons for the economic exploitation of children?
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Chapter 10: Crime and Delinquency
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Q1) What measures are needed to fight globalized crime and cybercrime?
Q2) Which of the following is true of plea bargaining?
A)It is legally binding.
B)It is involved in only a negligible number of convictions for criminal offenses.
C)It places due process of law above local politics and community norms.
D)It results in the dropping of some charges or the granting of a more lenient sentence.
Q3) ________ often encourage their clients to accept a guilty plea because of the pressure to help the system run smoothly.
A)Prosecuting attorneys
B)Judges
C)Police officers
D)Defense attorneys
Q4) What are some measures that can reduce the environmental opportunities for committing crime?
Q5) What are the possible explanations for the higher involvement in crime by teens and young adults?
Q6) Differentiate between primary deviance and secondary deviance.
Q7) What are the arguments in favor of legalizing victimless crimes?
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Chapter 11: Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) Which of the following is a myth about drug abuse in the United States?
A)Alcohol abuse is the most severe drug problem in the United States.
B)Heavy use of heroin clouds judgment and reduces inhibitions.
C)Heroin addicts are as likely to be high on alcohol as heroin when they commit crimes.
D)Drug use problem was a more serious issue in the past century compared to present times.
Q2) What role does genetics play in turning a person into an alcoholic?
Q3) What are the symptoms associated with alcohol withdrawal?
Q4) ________ is a preparation made from a plant of the genus Cannabis,usually consumed by smoking it like tobacco.
A)Heroin
B)Cocaine
C)Methamphetamine
D)Marijuana
Q5) Why are methadone maintenance programs in the United States highly controversial?
Q6) What are drug maintenance programs?
Q7) What does the functionalist perspective say about the drug abuse problem?
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Q8) What consequences did the Eighteenth Amendment pose when it took effect in 1920?
Chapter 12: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Trade
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Q1) George,a police officer working for the state of Dnipro,arrested Rachel,a streetwalker,at St.Thomas Avenue for soliciting customers for a brothel.When Rachel resisted her arrest and argued that prostitution is now legal in the state of Dnipro,George reminded her that prostitution is only legal in brothels licensed by the Dnipro state government.The model for approaching prostitution proposed by Helen Reynolds shown in the given example is the ________ model.
A)laissez-faire
B)regulation
C)zoning
D)control
Q2) Tobias,a businessman,visits a brothel.After a brief discussion with Angela,the madam at the brothel,Tobias decides to hire the services of Megan,an escort aged 17,over Serena,a 26-year-old escort at the brothel.Which of the following statements supports Tobias's decision to hire the services of Megan over Serena?
A)Serena is more likely to be working for a pimp.
B)Megan is more likely to be a crack addict.
C)Megan is less likely to be infected with the AIDS virus.
D)Serena is less likely to allow the use of a birth-control device.
Q3) Explain how different cultures around the world view sexual behavior.
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Chapter 13: Population Growth and Urbanization
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Q1) According to the ________ perspective,population becomes a social problem when those who control the economic system take steps to limit artificially the resources available in order to benefit a particular group of people.
A)behaviorist
B)interactionist
C)conflict
D)functionalist
Q2) After marriage,Joe and Monica decide to shift to Milano,a peaceful,multicultural residential area located on the outskirts of the city of Robinville.Milano is an example of a
A)settlement
B)ghetto
C)suburb
D)village
Q3) What is the major drawback of racially segregating minorities in ghettos?
A)It leads to negative stereotyping,hostility,and prejudice.
B)It spreads the problem of poverty more evenly around a metropolitan area.
C)Ghettos encourage decentralization of urban areas.
D)Ghettos are taxed at a higher rate than other areas of a city.
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Chapter 14: Environmental Problems
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Q1) Which of the following is true of an ecosystem?
A)An ecosystem is always relatively small.
B)Changes in one part of an ecosystem will always produce changes in the other parts.
C)Human-induced changes in an ecosystem seldom have a major negative effect.
D)A self-sufficient ecosystem interacts with other ecosystems at the overlap of their borders.
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement about the Kyoto Protocol?
A)It requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.
B)It requires developed countries to reduce their growth rate.
C)It requires all nations to reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals.
D)Its implementation has produced a substantial drop in greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
Q3) Explain how all parts of an environment are dependent on one another with the help of an example.
Q4) Why is it difficult to permanently dispose nuclear wastes?
Q5) What are the three sources of radioactive wastes?
Q6) How do environmental partnerships help in attacking environmental problems?
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Chapter 15: Violence, War, and Terrorism
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Q1) James is a wildlife photographer.He goes to Africa to photograph rhinoceros in their natural habitat.When James finds a rhino,he approaches it to take a picture.The rhino senses his presence from 300 meters away and starts charging at him aggressively.According to Robert Ardrey,this behavior is known as the ________ imperative.
A)narcoleptic
B)territorial
C)categorical
D)altruistic
Q2) A nuclear winter is caused by ________.
A)the burial of nuclear wastes underground
B)instabilities in the earth's core following a number of massive nuclear explosions
C)disposing nuclear wastes into water bodies
D)the dust and soot released into the atmosphere because of nuclear explosions
Q3) What are the motives behind terrorism?
Q4) How can efforts at world government be made effective?
Q5) What is the effect of war on a nation's economy?
Q6) What are the structural preconditions for violence? When do they exist?
Q7) How can the proliferation of nuclear weapons be reduced?
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