Social problems are conditions in which people within a community can be viewed as undesirable. This can be as serious as murder and drink-driving incidents, but other realms of the topic are more subjective. What do you know about them?
Curative medicine
Crisis medicine
Preventive medicine
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Nuclear
Extended
Modified extended
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A social institution based on kinship that functions to replace members of society and to nurture them
The reproductive institution
The oldest of all social institution
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The high cost of health care
The lack of acess to the health-care system by some sick people
Only A and B
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Use of the drug is widespread
Use of the drug is seen as socially acceptable by some
All of the above
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Land degradation
A reduction in the quantity of arable land
All of the above
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Structural unemployment
Public assisstance
Full employment
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Peoples belief in the biological differences of the races
Viewing race as a social category
Both a and c
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Demography
Sociology
Gerontology
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Cocaine
Alcohol
Heroin
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Racial groups
Sexual groups
Minority groups
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View crime as arising from people biological makeup
Have gained in popularity among criminologists over the years
Both a and c
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Alcholics are more stigmatized than in the past
Alcoholism is now viewed as a medical problem that can be treated
Employers are more willing to identify and fire employees who have problems with alcohol
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Increasing water pollution
A depletion of energy
An increase in biodiversity
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They are prone to divorce than traditional marriages
They have more egalitarian decision-making structure than do more tradittional families
None of the above
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France
United States
China
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They can claim assisstance and sympathy from others
They are excused from their normal role obligations to the extent that the disease calls for.
All of the above
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Prejudiced discriminators
Unprejudiced nondiscriminators
Prejudiced nondiscriminators
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Biology is secondary to social structure in shaping every stage
In all societies, people go through the same sequence of stages
Biology plays an important part in shaping the beginning and the end of the life cycle
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Aversion therapy
Potentation
Primary prevention
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A marriage between one male and more than one female
A family form in which male and female share mor or less equally in the exercise of power
A marriage involving only one spouse at a time
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Childhood
Adolescence
Youth
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Desertification
Eutrophication
The Green Revolution
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Sex roles change so rapidly that society's equilibrium is threatened
Exchange relationships between men and women become disquilibrious
There is a lack of consensus and shared expectations about the roles of men and women in society
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Research has shown that these programs are ineffective
Imprisoning drug addicts is a more effective from of rehabilitation
Most funds have been channeled into law enforcement and drug interdiction
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Prejudice
Discrimination
Racism
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Scientific research
Psychological assessments of the effectiveness of solutions to problems
A sociological approach to understanding social problems
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Preparing people for specialized roles in an industrial society
Staus conferral
Socialization and education
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They progress over a long period of time
They have a fairly quick onset
They often exist long before they are detected
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The poor blame society for their plight.
Poverty is attributed to the character flaws of the poor
The poor are blame by society for causing crime to rise
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Prejudice
Discrimination
Prejudiced discrimination
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The overdose level of a drug
The effect of two depressants in combination being greater than either drug seperately
The potential or probability that a given dosage of a drug will cause addiction
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Natural gas
Coal
Oil
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Expressive tasks
Leadership tasks
Instumental tasks
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Tolerence to them builds rapidly
There is cross-tolerence between most hallucinogens
They produce physical dependence
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To ensure that society's dirty work will be done
To create a market for inferior goods and services that only the poor will buy
To make available loans so that the poor can get job training
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Gender related terms
Sex-related terms
Sex-and gender related terms
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A decrease in the number of household with only one adult member
A dramatic increase over the past four decasdes in the number of women working
All of the above
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Many of the social bonds that are important i preindustrial societies are weakened by industrialization
People are more free to pursue their own needs in preindustrial societies
All of the above
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Not all such wastes are covered by government regulation
Most toxic waste dump sites are in the south and the west
The most toxic wastes are release by the automobile industry
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It is less polluted today thatn prior to the 1950s and 1960s
It has been destroyed as a source of food and water
It has recovered substantially from the damage done to it
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