Sociology - Social Problems; QuizDoc 3

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New battery-powered electronic cigarettes (i.e., tobacco-less nicotine delivery systems) are quickly becoming one the largest U.S. exports.

2

A group of people distinguished from other groups by their origin in a particular part of the world is referred to as ________.

3

Conflict theorists look to status groups lower in the social hierarchy as a sign that the cost of medical treatments is not the most effective way to improve health outcomes. This is based on the premise that ______.

4

The sport ethic is linked to deviance in sports because athletes

5

Anti-drug crusades have generally been associated with

6

The theory of ______ suggests that we find solutions to our environmental problems by altering our current economic system to encourage good environmental behavior.

7

Addicts usually become addicts because they want to retreat from social life

8

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a privately funded political action committee

9

Large profit-seeking medical-technology corporations have had little influence in the movement toward large centralized medical institutions

10

Which of these has adopted the process of gender mainstreaming as its main strategy to address inequalities between men and women?

11

Which of the following models or theories has been developed to assess how decision making actually is in the United States?

12

The Texas Republican Party does relatively well among middle- and upper-income non-Hispanic white voters living in the suburbs

13

Social assets that children gain from their home life and bring with them to the classroom are

14

Medical sociologists and economists claim that __________ account(s) for at least 40–50 percent of the annual rise in health care costs in the United States

15

The most recent incidence research in the United States and worldwide shows that __________ percent of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14

16

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

17

Which two countries have the highest fossil fuel CO2 emissions worldwide?

18

The average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime is called the __________

19

According to Stephanie Coontz, the Victorian homemaker with a large home was assisted to a large extent, directly or indirectly, in her tasks by:

20

According to the World Health organization ______________ million people are living with HIV globally

21

International misperception is a set of attitudes that legitimate both militarism and war.

22

Athletes who engage in deviant underconformity are usually punished or cut from teams; athletes who engage in deviant overconformity are

23

Which is most likely to make a country vulnerable to infiltration by organized crime?

24

Sharon comes to work with bruises on her face. She covers them with makeup but they can still be seen. Sharon's coworkers notice her wince when she touches her side; however, no one asks Sharon what happened

25

Toffler coined the term ______ to describe the confusion resulting from rapid scientific and technological changes that unravel our traditional values and beliefs

26

Which of the following statements best characterizes health care in the United States?

27

A society is

28

According to a national survey of racial disparities in health, most Americans attribute racial differences in poor health outcomes to which of these factors?

29

Global shortages of land are likely to make the world’s existing forests, many of which are in developing nations, ______.

30

The ______ refers to the number of divorces per 1,000 people.

31

Based on her research into drug use and disordered eating, Sirles offers a fourfold typology of instrumental drug users based on the following two dimensions

32

In the decade since the first charter schools opened, the U.S. charter-school movement has produced about __________ in 29 states and the District of Columbia

33

If Jill harasses a classmate on Facebook and spreads rumors about her on Twitter, this is known as a. malware

34

The government of a country plans to focus on primary prevention programs against illegal drug use. Which of the following measures should it adopt to establish a successful primary prevention program?

35

The ability of the development path to respond to different users' needs is known as ______.

36

Surprisingly, racist incidents on college campuses have not become a national problem

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