Community planning has its roots in the Charity Organization Society and settlement houses of the
a. Progressive Era. b. Industrial Revolution.
c. Great Depression.
d. none of the above.
The most important role social workers play in community planning is
a. to help community members, who are too often accustomed to thinking ofthemselves as marginal, learn to use their abilities.
b. to teach community members learn how to use the political system andmake it work for them, rather than against them.
c. to insist that the poor and the powerless and uninfluential develop plans fortheir communities that matter as much as the plans of the rich, the powerful,the connected. d. to remind community members not to overplay their hand and anger thosewith more resources and power.
The key to the survival of Embarrass, Minnesota, was
a. the return of heavy industry.
b. the discovery of their community heritage and traditional skills.
c. turning old farmsteads into facilities for fire and other safety training.
d. diversified agriculture and artisan woodworking.
Which of the following is not a principle of social change for the macro social worker?
a. You cannot help but inflict harm; make that harm selective and minimal.
b. Reveal interest groups for what they are.
c. Expose political and economic injustice.
d. Look for the institutional, systematic deviance that entrenches inequality andinjustice.
It is one of the paradoxical aspects of social change that
a. it can be imposed from the top down.
b. the greater the sacrifice one makes, the more one benefits.
c. the indifferent and the disinclined can be excluded from the change process.
d. self-sacrifice can diminish one's sense of self-worth.
The action-social model of change reflects a trend towards the ________ mentality in social work.
a. modern.
b. historicist.
c. postmodern.
d. evolutionary.
Social thinking
a. tends to be linear.
b. lends itself to individual reflection and action.
c. is rarely time-consuming.
d. none of the above.
Paulo Freire described ________ as conscientization.
a. learning to feel pain for others.
b. learning to see what is actually before one's eyes.
c. actively using one's intuition as an intensive process of making connections.
d. refusing to be deceived by pretty words or distracted by pain.
George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky proposed that mechanisms of thought
a. are a function of brain structure and chemistry.
b. arise from the interpretation of dreams.
c. are first engaged internally and subjected to intense personal scrutiny.
d. are first engaged externally, with others.
Jarlath Benson argued that one of the essential features separating humans from other living beings is:
a. our ability to relate our society to other societies across the gaps of culture,distance and time.
b. our ability to articulate values and conduct our lives by innate ethicalprinciples.
c. our ability to express ourselves in the public, which is to say political,sphere.
d. our ability to use language to help solve our problems and the problems ofothers.
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