The American Dream can best be summarized as
a. the belief in the phrase Live and let live.
b. the belief that anyone can become famous.
c. the belief that anyone can become successful.
d. the belief that anyone can become rich.
Which three major programs were expanded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009?
a. Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
b. the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the World Trade Center (WTC), and Assistance for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
c. the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the dole
d. SNAP (food stamps), unemployment insurance benefits, and Social Security
Conflict theorists would suggest that
a. people in poverty are poorly motivated.
b. the problem of poverty can only be solved by reducing inequality.
c. to reduce poverty, we should find more constructive ways to think about poor people individually.
d. stigma has a profound effect upon those who are labeled.
Which of the following perspectives asserts that poverty-related problems can be reduced by strengthening our major social institutions?
a. conflict perspective
b. symbolic interactionist perspective
c. functionalist perspective
d. feminist perspective
Which one of the following is most likely to fall into poverty?
a. dual-income families
b. single female-headed families
c. single male-headed families
d. elderly families
Regarding social problems in the media, sympathetic framing is most likely used when
or disability.
b. individuals in the story are women or members of an ethnic minority.
c. individuals in the story are men or members of an ethnic majority.
d. individuals in the story are veterans.
Which of the following initiatives created farm subsidies, minimum wage standards, and the Social Security system?
a. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s
b. Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty programs in the 1960s
c. Bill Clinton's Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act in the 1990s
d. Barack Obama's Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act in the 2010s
Oscar Lewis's idea that some poor people develop a separate and self-perpetuating system of attitudes and behaviors that keeps them trapped in poverty is known as
a. the system of checks and balances.
b. the cultural explanation of negative framing.
c. the cultural explanation of capital.
d. the culture of poverty hypothesis.
A business executive earning 50,000 annually in the 1930s would earn around 500,000 today. This increase is based upon
a. cultural capital.
b. constant dollars and current dollars.
c. wage squeeze.
d. sympathetic framing.
The practice used by people who view a social problem as emanating from within the individual exhibiting the problem is known as
a. blaming the victim.
b. blaming the man.
c. blaming the system.
d. blaming the culture.
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