The deeply-ingrained belief that humans with intellectual limitations and disabilities are a pathological element of American society is an example of
a. the institutional deviance model.
b. the social deviance model.
c. the social cultural premises perspective.
d. a concentration of power.
In the corporate context, an example of institutional deviance is
a. marketing tobacco as an occasional pleasure only to adults.
b. rejecting lavish corporate compensation packages.
c. selling arms only to members of movements for social equality, such as Take Back the Night.
d. selling weapons to foreign countries for profit
A fear of concentrated power underlay political thought in the pre-United States Federalist writings. The following is not a result of this fear:
a. the US system of checks and balances.
b. the US concept of an independent judiciary.
c. substantial economic equality as a counter to concentrated power.
d. interest group politics, also known as pluralism.
Modern organizations are not natural human associations because they
a. respond to peoples economic and materialistic needs.
b. understand the value of treating people with an impartial and neutral fairness.
c. insist people relate to each other as human equals despite their natural tendency to adhere to sex roles.
d. are not designed to provide social goods as part of their mechanisms.
Many macro social workers believe that _______ is the only possible form of social organization that can give people meaningful control over its political directions.
a. labor unions
b. community
c. religious organization
d. political activism
Macro social workers see the source of social problems
a. as aggravated by ways people develop to cope with oppression.
b. as located in the conditions people must endure.
c. as aggravated by human weakness and laziness.
d. as fundamental to the modern 21st Century economy.
Macro social workers accept peoples perceptions of social reality
a. as valid because people have a right to own their feelings and values.
b. as valid when they conform to objective social reality.
c. as invalid when they diverge from objective social reality.
d. as invalid unless others in their situation confirm their perceptions.
The following are components of a social problem:
a. It has a social, rather than individual cause.
b. It affects a lot of people.
c. It must be amenable only to a collective solution.
d. All of the above.
The United States leads the world in
a. defense spending.
b. a generous and dignified standard of poverty.
c. programs that lift children out of poverty.
d. programs that enable adults to permanently escape poverty.
Despite all the claims and counterclaims, the rate of children living in poverty
a. typically rises under Democratic Administrations and falls under Republican ones
b. typically rises under Republican Administrations and falls under Democratic ones.
c. remains fairly constant, regardless of political changes.
d. fluctuates for poorly-understood reasons unconnected to government policies.
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