Social Problems Exam 2 Review
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The practice used by people who view a social problem as emanating from within the individual exhibiting the problem is known as ________.
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Statistics
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What initiative created farm subsidies, minimum wage standards, and the SSI system?
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New Deal
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Regarding the media, sympathetic framing is most likely used when _____.
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The individuals in the story are children, elderly, individuals, or persons with an illness or disability.
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What programs were expanded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009?
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food stamps, unemployment insurance benefits, and social security.
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Why do sociologist analyze secondary data when they conduct research on wealth and poverty around the world?
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Because the data focus on quality-of-life indicators such as wealth, income, life expectancy, health, sanitation, the treatment of women, and education (from high-income, middle-income, and low income).
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How did Marx evaluate the U.S. social stratification system?
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By two classes: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
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What group is best describe by \"racial feminization of poverty\"?
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African American women and Latinas
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The decrease in take home pay since the 1980s is known as ______.
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Wage Squeeze
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Employers who enjoy tax credits for hiring those one welfare are benefiting from _______.
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Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
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What is the reason for food loss in poor countries?
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Retailers and consumers who throw \"perfectly edible foodstuffs\" into the trash.
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According to the uniform crime report, overall rates of crime have done what?
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Increased sharply
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By definition, mass murder involves killing how man people in time?
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4 or more people
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One study in the text referred to serial killers who killed to rid the community of undesirables as what?
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Missionaries
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The legal age of consent, considering statuary rape law is what?
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16-18
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Professional shoplifter who steal good to sell to pawn shops are called what?
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Booster or Heel
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Which of the following accounts for nearly 90% of occupational Fraud?
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White Collar Crime
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Ponzi schemes are which?
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Securities and Commodities fraud
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Drug trafficking, prostitution, etc. Are related to which crime?
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Organized crime
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Which term is used to a juvenile, who is maturing and might benefit from rehabilitation?
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Juvenile delinguency
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Which part of the brain is associated with violent behavior?
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Cortex
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Strain Theory
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The proposition that people feel strain when they are exposed to cultural goals that they cannot reach because they do not have access to a culturally approved means of achieving goals.
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Differential Association theory
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States that individuals have a greater tendency to deviate from societal norms when they frequently associate with people who tend toward deviance rather than conformity
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Some analysis believe that mandatory minimum sentencing has reduced the role of whom?
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Police
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Family
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as a group of people who are related to one another by blood, marriage, adoption and who live together, form an economic unit, and bear and raise children
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Monogamy
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a marriage between one woman and one man
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What has contributed the lower marriage rate of African American Women?
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Singlehood
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Why are young people today choosing to stay single for long periods of time?
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They either haven't found an acceptable partner or out of necessary
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The domestic work that many employed women perform at home after completing their work day on the job known as _______.
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Second shift
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Which type of family does the partners share power
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egalitarian family
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Know information given in the text about \"infertility\".
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an inability to conceive after a year of unprotected sexual relations
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Know material given in the text about \"adoption\".
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a legal process through which the rights and duties of parenting are transferred from child's bio/legal parents to new parents
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What is the most frequent form of child maltreatment?
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Child abuse
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Emily comes to work with bruises all over her. None of her co-workers ask her what happened. The co-workers are demonstrating a(n) _______.
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Nonintervention
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