The focus of______is on social action to bring about societal change.
A) Community change reaction
B) Participatory action research
C) Strike force
D) Adversarial action reaction
Not-for-profit agencies differ from for-profit agencies since:
A) They are not owned by shareholders or private owners.
B) They keep their profits rather than returning them to shareholders.
C) They place far less emphasis on fiscal considerations when they make decisions.
D) They encourage profit gains as part of the decision-making process.
A lawsuit alleging that the adversary has refused to live up to an agreement might seek which of the following:
A) Specific performance
B) Remedial injunctions
C) Resolution trust
D) All of the above
The first issue a policy advocate must consider in developing a proposal is:
A) How the proposed program will be funded.
B) Which agency will oversee the proposed program.
C) How the proposed program will be implemented.
D) The proposed program's mission.
Legal challenges on behalf of groups of people are often called:
A) Class action suits
B) Grievances
C) Due process
D) Habeas corpus
Personal ideology:
A) Does not influence a stakeholder's policy preferences.
B) Often influences a stakeholder's policy preferences.
C) Has no place in policy proposal decisions.
D) None of these choices.
____________ requires that organizations and agencies abide by policies, procedures, regulations, and other rules before they deprive someone of liberty, property, or life.
A) Adjudication
B) Due process
C) Injunction
D) Voir dire
Stakeholders are:
A) Community residents.
B) Direct-service staff and their supervisors.
C) Any person or group with an interest in a specific policy proposal.
D) Foundations and university researchers.
Regarding Alinsky's principles of social action today, all of the following were cited in the text except:
A) Enemies are harder to identify and the high-tech world makes the role of the media much more influential in affecting ideas and actions
B) Attacking enemies leads to polarization
C) The nature of many community problems precludes solutions without outside funds
D) Social workers agree with governmental institutions' assertion that what is good for the wealthy is also good for the poor
Which of the following is NOT one of the ambiguities or philosophical issues confronted by policy advocates?
A) That people favor complex solutions to simple problems.
B) The difficulty in determining when social problems are real and when they are invented.
C) The fact that priorities are often not chosen rationally.
D) That solving one problem sometimes creates another problem.
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