Explain the sociological approach, including the questions sociologists ask, to study social problems.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Claims-making process: interest groups/individuals claim the problem exists and work to get it media attention – how does a social condition becomes defined as a social problem?
2. Understanding the underlying causes of the problem: sociological thinking about and research on the problem – what factors produced the problem?
3. Analyzing the problem: public reactions are gauged – who benefits and who is harmed by the problem?
4. Search for solutions: policymaking, implementation, and evaluation occurs – how can good research inform interventions and improvements?
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(a) the absence of physical disease or infirmity. (b) a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. (c) freedom from chronic ailments. (d) freedom from acute ailments.
Which one of the following must be computed in order to use a standard set of chi square values?
a. standard deviations b. sampling errors c. degrees of freedom d. percentages down and percentages across e. Pearson's r
In a certain industry, it is known that the standardized regression coefficient for predicting likely profit from number of advertisements is .7. A company is planning to place 18 advertisements. Which of the following pieces of information will be
needed as part of predicting the actual amount of profit? A) Length of time the company has been in business B) Mean and standard deviation of the number of advertisements in general C) This company’s profit to date D) Median and variance of the number of advertisements in general
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A. 48 percent B. 12 percent C. 32 percent D. 22 percent