.In approaching the problem of homelessness, liberals point…

.In approaching the problem of homelessness, liberals point…

In approaching the problem of homelessness, liberals point to__________.Group of answer choices

the need for greater self-discipline and personal responsibility

economic issues such as low-wage jobs and high rates of unemployment

personal problems, such as alcohol abuse and mental illness, among the homeless

moral weakness among poor people

27.In 1932, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described “one-third of a nation ill-clothed, ill-housed, and ill-fed,” proposing the New Deal, which included a major new program called__________.

Group of answer choices

a labor union

Head Start

Medicare

Social Security

28.A research project that uses data already compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau is an example of which of the following research methods?

Group of answer choices

secondary analysis

field research

experimental research

survey analysis

29.If you take a liberal point of view, poverty is mostly a problem that__________.

Group of answer choices

can never be solved

focuses on traits of poor people

involves society as a whole

people should solve for themselves

30.Which of the following has played a part in more than 6 million accidents a year in the United States?

Group of answer choices

poverty

flu virus

school shootings

cell phone use while driving

31.For German sociologist Max Weber, the main goal of sociology was to __________.

Group of answer choices

promote social change

avoid the illusion of objectivity

engage in political debate

discover truth

32.In 2016, how many people in the United States were counted as poor by the federal government?

Group of answer choices

40.6 million

36.6 million

16.6 million

6.6 million

33.Social stratification is defined as __________.

Group of answer choices

the way people in a society size up their social standing

a society’s system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy

the fact that some people tend to outperform others

the difference in income between rich and poor members of a society

34.According to which of the following political positions does the solution to poverty lie in government reforms, such as increasing the minimum wage and raising tax rates on the wealthy?

Group of answer choices

radical left

liberal

conservative

radical right

35.Class-conflict theory is an explanation of social problems guided by the thinking of __________.

Group of answer choices

Emile Durkheim

Herbert Spencer

the Chicago School

Karl Marx

36.In which stage of a social movement do the people involved come together to share their concerns and make claims about the need for change?

Group of answer choices

emergence

coalescence

decline

formalization

37.In 1960, just before President Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty, the national poverty rate stood at about __________.

Group of answer choices

12 percent

22 percent

32 percent

2 percent

38.The term infant mortality refers to the risk of death __________.

Group of answer choices

before reaching the teenage years

for a mother during childbirth

during the first year of life

prior to birth, including abortions and miscarriages

39.When he was elected president Ronald Reagan based his economic decisions on which theory of economics that does not exist in reality?

Group of answer choices

Exchange Economics

Trickle Down Economics

Redistribution of Income Economics

Trickle up Economics

40.Which of the following concepts refers to a basic image of society that guides theory and research?

Group of answer choices

correlation

theoretical approach

hypothesis

societal subsystem

41.The richest 20 percent of all U.S. families controls what percentage of all privately owned wealth?

Group of answer choices

89 percent

20 percent

39 percent

59 percent

42.Sociologist Herbert Gans claimed that inequality benefits __________.

Group of answer choices

rich people by ensuring there is a supply of poor people willing to do almost any job, no matter how unpleasant

corporations because poor people are a profitable market

everyone by making society more productive

bureaucrats by expanding government assistance programs

43.We tend to assume people are responsible for their own troubles because our way of life in the United States emphasizes __________.

relying on luck

tradition

collective goals

individualism

44.If you wanted to study poverty in terms of race and ethnicity, you would probably use __________.

Group of answer choices

Marxist theory

multicultural theory

cultural capital theory

social disorganization theory

45.In the United States, social welfare programs that provide government assistance of one type or another benefit__________.

Group of answer choices

most people

only poor people

only disabled people

only a small share of the poor

46.If you take a radical-left point of view, you see the main cause of poverty as __________.

Group of answer choices

misguided government assistance programs

personal deficiencies in poor people themselves

the normal operation of a capitalist economy

modern industrial technology

47.An example of a pattern that is very harmful but not generally defined as a social problem is __________.

Group of answer choices

homicide, which involves more than 16,000 deaths each year

terrorism, which includes events that have resulted in thousands of deaths

school shootings, which have resulted in several dozen deaths

the use of automobiles, which results in some 32,000 deaths each year

48.Which of the following would have the support of social conservatives?

Group of answer choices

use of the death penalty to punish the most serious crimes

encouragement of immigration across our borders

various “alternative lifestyles”

“pro-choice” side of the abortion controversy

49.Which method has researchers investigate cause-and-effect relationships under highly controlled conditions?

Group of answer choices

secondary analysis

participant observation

the experiment

the survey

50.If you understand social problems as caused largely by racial and ethnic inequality, you are probably using which of the following theories ?

Group of answer choices

social disorganization theory

multicultural theory

feminist theory

class-conflict theory