social problems exam 1

Social Problems Exam 1 The nations of Western Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada are able to provide generous social welfare policies for their citizens because they __________. tax their citizens at a higher rate than the United States According to William Graham Sumner the rich are successful because ____? They are superior According to social Darwinism, disadvantaged members of society___? deserve their fate. (not bright enough to succeed) The idea of the sociological imagination was developed by which sociologist? C. Wright Mills Social Welfare States have a _____ life expectancy compared to the U.S. Higher According to the sociological perspective norm violations are ___? the symptoms of social problems, not the cause A person blame approach advocates social programs that ___? seek to control individual behavior As a result of extensive and universal social services the social welfare states have ___? lower rates of violent crime The assumption of the members of a group that the culture of some other group is not only inferior but also deficient is called ____? Cultural deprivation Institutionalized deviance results in a society in which ____? it is organized in such a way as to disadvantage some of its members. Almost all of the growth in the worlds population by 2050 will take place in the ___? Poorest nations Deviant people are treated as the cause of their own problems by which of the following approaches of studying social problems? Person-blame The ____ nature of social problems illustrates that social problems vary by time, place, and definition. Subjective Control Group: The subjects not exposed to the independent variable Asserting that the poor are poor because the institutions around them set them up to fail might be said by a ____? System-blamer According to the text ____ often escaped criticism and identification as social problems. Institutions Sociology is distinct from other disciplines in its approach to understanding norm violations as _____? Culturally defined and socially labeled As the percentage of the U.S. residents who are over 65 years old increases the divide between workers who support the old with pay role taxes will have a racial dimension because the elderly will be overwhelmingly ____? White Recidivism: Re-involvement in crime Our social system is rarely seen as causing social problems because ____? we have a hard time questioning our cherished traditions Asserting that the poor are poor because they are not bright enough to succeed might be said by a ____? A system blamer Relying too heavily on a person blame approach to social problems is a problem because ___? societal conditions (such as norms that are racist, sexist, or homophobic) go unchallenged The U.S. with about 4.5% of the world’s population consumes ____ of the worlds energy. One-Fourth According to the sociological perspective, which of the following best explains social problems? the symptoms of social problems, not the cause Longitudinal Analysis: is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables over short or long periods of time. It is often a type of observational study, although they can also be structured as longitudinal randomized experiments The system blame approach would attribute students’ failures in schools to ____? the failure of our educational system to meet their needs. Society includes conditions that harm any segment of the population and acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society define: social problems Relying too heavily on a system blame approach is a problem because ____? it absolves individuals from responsibility for their actions According to the text the key to understanding social problems is understanding the ___? Distribution of power in society