Exam 1: The Sociological Approach to Social Problems

Half of the people in the world live on less than __________.

Researchers who use __________ collect information about the same persons over many years.

Asserting that "the poor are poor because the institutions around them set them up to fail" might be said by a __________.

Sociologists use __________ to explain a range of human behavior and a variety of social and societal events.

According to the sociological perspective,norm violators are __________.

An extremely dogmatic system-blame approach to social problems views individuals almost as robots controlled totally by their social environment.

By referring to the subjective nature of social problems,sociologists have more recently come to acknowledge that what is defined as a social problem is basically the same across audiences and time.

Deviant people are treated as the cause of their own problems by which of the following approaches to studying social problems?

How do the authors justify the claim that the study of social problems cannot be value free? How do they suggest that we deal with bias? Ideal

With corporations in the process of downsizing their employee base,while at the same time frequently merging with other companies,C.Wright Mills would refer to the resulting unemployment as "private troubles" of the individuals involved rather than a "public issue."

To understand the cause-and-effect relationship among variables,sociologists use controlled __________.

Institutionalized deviance results in a society in which __________.

Almost all the growth in the world's population by 2050 will take place in the __________.

Our social system is rarely seen as causing social problems because __________.

The assumption by the members of a group that the culture of some other group is not only inferior,but also deficient,is called __________.

Emergency food requests and people seeking emergency shelter are __________.

Discuss how each of the two main approaches to understanding social problems would explain a social problem like recidivism.

Sociologists ask three types of questions: empirical,comparative,and __________.

According to C.Wright Mills,what is the relationship between private troubles and public issues? Give an example of each.

The person-blame approach assumes that social problems results from __________.