Deck 28: Global Problems

Question 1

In India, what may be the cause for the uneven distribution of food and other supplies provided to flood victims by the government?

A) rules of social and gender stratification
B) rules of descent
C) ethnic biases
D) retribution

Answer 1

rules of social and gender stratification

Question 2

Societies that have violent methods of conflict resolution within communities, physical punishment of criminals, high frequency of warfare, and cruelty toward enemies generally have more

A) homicide.
B) child abuse.
C) wife beating.
D) husband abuse.

Answer 2

wife beating.

Question 3

Which social problem does cross-cultural research suggest that societies with individual property rights, rather than shared rights, are more likely to suffer?

A) malnutrition
B) drought
C) famine
D) homelessness

Answer 3

famine

Question 4

The contrast between homelessness in the United States and Australia makes it clear that the cause or causes of homelessness is/are

A) mental illness.
B) poverty and disability.
C) social and medical policies.
D) social and political policies.

Question 5

Which did not contribute to the famine in the African Sahel in 1974?

A) drought
B) deforestation
C) civil war
D) floods

Question 6

Why do climatic and other events in the physical environment become disasters?

A) because people are killed
B) because of the lack of medical knowledge
C) because of conditions in the natural environment
D) because of conditions in the social environment

Question 7

What percent of the violence against women comes from a male intimate partner, such as a husband?

A) 50%
B) 65%
C) 75%
D) 90%

Question 8

The reasons for infanticide are similar to those given for

A) murder.
B) abortion.
C) wife battering.
D) physical abuse.

Question 9

What is the most reliably reported crime in official records?

A) homicide.
B) child abuse.
C) wife beating.
D) husband abuse.

Question 10

Cross-culturally, what is the most common form of family violence?

A) murder
B) child abuse
C) wife beating
D) husband beating

Question 11

What is a cause of socialization for aggression?

A) homicide
B) child abuse
C) war
D) capital punishment

Question 12

What legitimizes violence just as war seems to?

A) homicide
B) defending territory
C) unemployment
D) capital punishment

Question 13

As of the 1980's, what percentage of the people in five of El Salvador's major cities lived in illegal dwellings?

A) 40
B) 57
C) 67
D) 72

Question 14

People in nonindustrial societies mostly go to war

A) out of self-defense.
B) for religious reasons.
C) as an unconscious means of population control.
D) as a hedge against the unpredictability of natural disasters.

Question 15

Many researchers focus their studies on variation in the frequencies of specific behaviors to avoid having to decide what is or is not

A) mental illness.
B) abuse.
C) culturally appropriate.
D) discipline.

Question 16

What is the major cause of China's Hwang River floods?

A) burst dams
B) deforestation
C) farming on floodplains
D) too few dams

Question 17

The deliberate policy to reduce the number of people hospitalized for mental illness and other disabilities was a factor of homelessness in which country?

A) El Salvador
B) Mexico
C) Australia
D) United States

Question 18

One of the clearest findings to emerge from comparative studies of crime is that war is associated with higher rates of

A) homicide.
B) child abuse.
C) wife beating.
D) capital punishment.

Question 19

Property crimes increase with increases in

A) homicide.
B) child abuse.
C) unemployment.
D) capital punishment.

Question 20

Who, in socially stratified societies, are most likely to be forced to overcultivate, overgraze, and deforest their land, making it susceptible to degradation?

A) the elite
B) the poor
C) the minority population
D) the elderly

Question 21

Why are refugees such a great problem?

A) because continuing turmoil in many countries creates refugees to a greater extent than ever before
B) because no one wants to flee from persecution and war
C) because small numbers of people are involved
D) because most countries will take all the refugees they can

Question 22

What is one marker of the difference between most crime and terrorism?

A) Criminals rarely take credit for their activities.
B) Terrorists have higher motives than simple criminals.
C) One country's terrorism is another country's salvation.
D) Terrorists are not criminals, just misunderstood freedom-fighters.

Question 23

Why do anthropologists feel that they can solve social problems?

Question 24

Why are homicide rates associated with war? What happens after a war?

Question 25

Anthropologists think they can contribute to solving global social problems because

A) it is possible to discover the causes of a problem and we assume we can do something about the causes.
B) anthropologists have always solved every problem before.
C) the solutions used in the ancient past, always work today.
D) they know a lot about causes of problems.

Question 26

Why has terrorism become a global problem?

A) because terrorists can easily transport explosives and biological weapons
B) because organized groups can train terrorists
C) because people are willing to kill themselves for their cause
D) all of the above

Question 27

There are many societies which practice infanticide for various reasons. These include

A) illegitimacy.
B) deformities.
C) too many children.
D) all of the above.

Question 28

What type of national political systems rarely fight each other?

A) totalitarian dictatorships
B) participatory governments
C) government by tribunal
D) fascist dictatorships

Question 29

One of the concerns a society should have is the after effects of war because

A) research shows that homicide rates go down after a society engages in war.
B) research shows that homicide rates go up after a society engages in war.
C) all societies will retreat into isolationism.
D) all societies will become even more aggressive.

Question 30

Research shows us that societies which are more participatory go to war with each other

A) more often.
B) less often.
C) about the same and non-participatory societies.
D) none of the above.

Question 31

One value consistent with egalitarian societies is that crimes like theft is seen less often because

A) access to resources is fairly equally distributed, so there are fewer differences in wealth.
B) there are small numbers of people.
C) the population is older and less likely to get involved in crime.
D) there is a higher percentage of women and they are less likely to get involved in crime.

Question 32

Researchers have tried to study ways to minimize family violence. However,

A) nothing will ever change.
B) the media seems to glorify family violence.
C) nothing can be done if people do not acknowledge that a problem exists.
D) none of the above.

Question 33

Why is it that a crime in one society is not necessarily a crime in another?

A) because it depends on the judges in any culture
B) because crime is not totally universal
C) because cultures have different viewpoints of behavior and different laws
D) no one really knows why, but it happens this way

Question 34

R. J. Rummel estimates that nearly __________ million people have been killed by governments in the twentieth century.

A) 50
B) 262
C) 35
D) 130

Question 35

What constitutes a natural disaster? What can we do to alleviate these types of problems? (You may take just one example and expand on it.)

Question 36

What is the problem of homelessness? How does this problem continue even though we are clearly aware of it?

Question 37

One problem that exists in housing is in rapidly growing cities which contain squatter settlements which are often

A) small areas of fairly nice housing.
B) dwellings that are typically declared illegal often because the homes violate building codes.
C) large areas of suburbia.
D) permanent living areas of people who have lived in the area for decades.