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This course offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary social problems affecting local, national, and global communities. Students examine the causes, consequences, and possible solutions for issues such as poverty, inequality, crime, healthcare, substance abuse, discrimination, and environmental challenges. Through analysis of sociological theories, empirical research, and policy responses, the course encourages critical thinking about the ways social problems are constructed and addressed in society. Emphasis is placed on developing sociological perspectives and considering the roles of individuals, institutions, and social structures in shaping and resolving pressing social concerns.
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Investigating Social Problems 2nd Edition by
A. Javier Trevino
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Chapter 1: Sociology and Social Problems
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Q1) The labor market is a social institution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What is intersectionality? Pick a social problem and explain why it is important to look at this problem from an intersectional perspective.How might our understanding of this problem be limited if we did not take an intersectional approach?
Answer: Intersectionality is the way demographic factors combine to affect people's experiences.Answers will vary based on the example.
Q3) Anomie is defined as a state of harmony within society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Government,military,and marriage are examples of ______.
A)structural functionalism
B)social institutions
C)demographic factors
D)interest groups
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Poverty and Class Inequality
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Q1) The ______ is the belief that anyone can rise from humble beginnings to become wealthy and successful simply by applying oneself.
A)culture of poverty thesis
B)redistributive justice principle
C)self-made man myth
D)social mobility principle
Answer: C
Q2) Lower-income workers are just as likely as higher-income workers to be underinsured.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ______ provides reduced-cost meals for students with incomes between 130% and 185% of the poverty line.
A)The Social Security Act
B)Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
C)The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
D)The School Lunch Program
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Which of the following most accurately describes the process by which the dominant race in society is shielded from the most toxic/harmful environmental threats,while minority groups are exposed to various health risks/hazards?
A)institutional discrimination
B)assimilation
C)environmental racism
D)internalized racism
Answer: C
Q2) Conflict theorists are mainly focused on which of the following?
A)the better training or cultural adaptation of minorities
B)the physical and psychic separation between the dominant/majority group and subordinate/minority groups
C)the cultural adaptation of minorities
D)changing institutional actions that have historically advantaged Whites so others can have more equal access to society's benefits
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Gender
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Q1) Explain the theory of doing gender.What is accountability in regard to doing gender? If gender is a performance,how does this explain the existence of gender inequality?
Q2) Queer theory primarily draws on which of the following theories?
A)doing gender and radical feminism
B)socialist feminism and sex role theory
C)sex role theory and liberal feminism
D)functionalist theory and ethnomethodology
Q3) The theory of doing gender is most closely associated with which of the following sociological perspectives?
A)structural functionalism
B)symbolic interactionism
C)conflict theory
D)integrative theory
Q4) While sex role theory is associated with ______,liberal feminism is associated with ______.
A)symbolic interactionism;conflict theory
B)conflict theory;functionalism
C)functionalism;conflict theory
D)conflict theory;symbolic interactionism
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Chapter 5: Sexuality
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Q1) A ______ approach to sexual violence would focus on the concept that men control resources within society and are,consequently,better positioned to set the sexual agenda in heterosexual contexts.
A)symbolic interactionism
B)conflict theory
C)structural functionalism
D)integrative theory
Q2) According to the U.S.Bureau of Justice,only 32.5% of rape and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2015.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Half the Sky Movement,more women and girls are shipped into brothels annually now than African slaves were shipped into slave plantations each year in the 18th century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) About 40,000 new cases of HIV are diagnosed in the United States each year.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Aging
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Q1) Symbolic interaction assumes that individuals in a society communicate via cultural symbols and shared meaning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ is defined as the number of children born to women during their prime fertility period.
A)Aging
B)Sex ratio
C)Life expectancy
D)Fertility rate
Q3) On an average day,about ______ of those 65+ are in nursing homes.
A)4%
B)10%
C)18%
D)30%
Q4) In the United States,those 65 and older are the age demographic least likely to be the victim of a crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Education
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Q1) Literacy is measured as a scale that reflects an individual's ability to understand,evaluate,and create written texts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Pierre Bourdieu,personal connections and relationships to other people are examples of ______ capital.
A)economic
B)social
C)cultural
D)symbolic
Q3) According to Pierre Bourdieu,knowledge about music,art,and literature are examples of ______ capital.
A)economic
B)social
C)cultural
D)symbolic
Q4) According to Raymond Rist (1977),how do teacher expectations affect student performance? Describe an educational policy (real or imaginary)that has or could result from this research.
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Chapter 8: Media
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Q1) A tobacco company paying a movie studio to mention its cigarettes in an upcoming film is an example of ______.
A)mean world syndrome
B)media phobia
C)the media consumption hypothesis
D)product placement
Q2) How does the media support moral entrepreneurs?
A)by balancing their reporting equally across social problems
B)by providing a platform for publicizing claims makers' interpretations of social problems
C)by ensuring well-informed public debate on the most critical issues
D)by prioritizing the most severe and prevalent social problems
Q3) When discussing obesity,the U.S.media most frequently ______.
A)blames individuals' eating habits and inactivity
B)focuses on the relationship between genes and body weight
C)discusses how widespread cultural trends affect obesity rates
D)focuses on the relationship between obesity and age
Q4) With regard to activists intervening and highlighting social issues in the news,discuss the general relationship between media activism and social problems.
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Chapter 9: Family
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Q1) According to Trevino,______ does not seem to value family values as much as other developed countries.
A)Canada
B)Sweden
C)France
D)the United States
Q2) Researchers studying premarital relationships among women in sub-Saharan Africa found that unmarried women who are poor are more likely to engage in ______,the receipt of money and gifts from a male partner in exchange for sexual activities.
A)transitional sex
B)transactional sex
C)sex work
D)sexual slavery
Q3) Which legislation defined marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman for federal and interstate purposes?
A)Family and Marriage Act
B)Defense of Marriage Act
C)Heterosexual Marriage Bill
D)Traditional Family Defense Act
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Chapter 10: Work and the Economy
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Q1) ______describes work that is split up into many specialized occupational roles and tasks,thus increasing productivity.
A)Oligarchy
B)Division of labor
C)Labor exploitation
D)Manual labor
Q2) Workers between 51 and 61 who lose their jobs are actually less likely than employed workers to suffer a heart attack over the next 6-10 years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Kelly used to work at a fast-food restaurant,but she is now employed as a nurse.Kelly is best described as ______.
A)transitioning from the primary sector to the secondary sector
B)transitioning from the secondary sector to the service sector
C)consistently being employed in the service sector
D)consistently being employed in the secondary sector
Q4) Women are more satisfied with their jobs than men making equivalent incomes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Crime
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Q1) Rather than using a case efficiency model of justice,______ courts make problem-solving their primary goal and orient their proceedings toward social justice.
A)traditional
B)corrective
C)specialized
D)collaborative
Q2) Tannenbaum's explanation of the "dramatization of evil" is most closely associated with which of the following theoretical schools of thought?
A)functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)symbolic interaction
D)feminist theory
Q3) Murder would be considered a ______ crime.
A)mala in se
B)mala prohibita
C)mala regulates
D)mala vera
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Chapter 12: Drugs
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Q1) ______ youth are arrested for drug crimes at rates 3.5-5.5 times higher than White youth.
A)Filipino
B)Black
C)Latino
D)Asian
Q2) The argument that outlawing drugs such as heroin during the early 20th century was tied to the emergence of the modern pharmaceutical industry,which profited from the control of these substances,is most closely associated with which theoretical perspective?
A)functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)integrative theory
Q3) ______ policies would be most likely to focus on building social capital to decrease drug abuse.
A)Functionalist
B)Conflict
C)Interactionist
D)Bureaucratic
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Chapter 13: Health
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Q1) The Gini coefficient is an index measuring the level of ______ in a society.
A)health care
B)social gradient of health
C)inequality
D)morbidity
Q2) All of the following are criticisms of advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers EXCEPT that it ______.
A)misinforms patients
B)minimizes drug benefits
C)manufactures disease
D)encourages the overutilization of drugs
Q3) Expenditures on prescription medicines make up approximately ______ of the U.S.gross national product.
A)5%
B)15%
C)25%
D)35%
Q4) Discuss Talcott Parsons's perspective on the shared set of expectations between the patient and the doctor.Be sure to discuss the "sick role" and the four dimensions of the sick role.
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Chapter 14: The Environment
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Q1) Some regions of the earth have gotten colder over the past century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What does it mean to say that an environmental problem is a social problem? What are two social causes of environmental problems? In general,why do environmental sociologists say humans cause environmental problems?
Q3) What is risk society? Discuss reflexive modernization and what a risk society consists of.Also,discuss the concept of a risk contract.
Q4) The absence of environmental costs in the economy feeds what environmental sociologists call the ______.
A)NIMBY approach
B)greenwashing phenomenon
C)natural cultivation occurrence
D)treadmill of production
Q5) Ecological modernization is most closely associated with the ______ perspective. A)conflict
B)structural functionalist
C)symbolic interactions
D)feminist
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Chapter 15: Science and Technology
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Q1) Hackers are most likely to live in all of the following states EXCEPT ______.
A)Texas
B)California
C)Illinois
D)New York
Q2) Industrial organizations pursuing genomics,robotics,and nanotechnology for profit are examples of ______.
A)technocracy
B)industrialized science
C)megamachines
D)robo-social problems
Q3) The theft or manipulation of electronic data has become one of the top four economic crimes of the early 21st century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Globally there are 14 cybervictims every second.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: War and Terrorism
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Q1) According to the ______,participation in advanced consumer society reduces war with other prosperous countries.
A)Truman doctrine
B)NATO protocol
C)intrastate war principle
D)McDonald's theory of conflict resolution
Q2) Female soldiers make up about ______% of the U.S.armed forces.
A)5
B)15
C)25
D)35
Q3) ______ occurs when a government provides materiel support,weapons,and training to subnational units in another country so they can attack governments or civilians in that country.
A)State-sponsored terrorism
B)Repressive state terrorism
C)The terrorist industrial conflict
D)Routinized militarism
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Chapter 17: Urbanization
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Q1) Homer Hoyt's (1939)______ is based on the idea that cities' growth patterns depend on the cities' main lines of transportation.
A)multiple nuclei theory
B)sector model
C)concentric zone
D)central business district
Q2) All of the following are zones in Burgess's concentric-zone model of urban land use EXCEPT ______.
A)affluent inner ring
B)transition zone
C)blue collar residential
D)commuter residential
Q3) Much of the poverty,unemployment,and inequality in the United States occurs in ______.
A)a gesellschaft
B)cities
C)a gemeinschaft
D)urban areas
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