Explain how deinstitutionalization movements in the 1970s have contributed to the state of homelessness in the U.S. today.
What will be an ideal response?
1. In the 1970s there was a movement aimed at removing individuals with disabilities and mental health problems out of inhumane institutions and asylums.
2. This movement was successful, but put many people into precarious living situations because they were not provided adequate access to healthcare, jobs, and/or housing.
3. Those with severe disabilities and mental health conditions, along with those struggling from addiction, now more typically find themselves in and out of the criminal justice system (i.e., prison).
4. The social safety net for this population is slim to nonexistent today, which explains why they make up a disproportionate number of the homeless.
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A) There has been an increase in the death rates for heart disease and stroke. B) There has been an increase in chronic and long-term illnesses. C) There is an inversely proportional relationship found between better education and good health. D) There is a steep decrease in disability rates.
World systems analysis is
A. Karl Marx's view that the bourgeois nations such as England would dominate the proletarian nations such as India. B. Erving Goffman's view that world peace would result from many types of nations interacting with one another. C. Talcott Parsons's view that the inequality that exists among nations is necessary for world stability. D. Immanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
The U.S. system of capitalism depends on __________
A) the socioeconomic equality of citizens B) the maximization of profit C) the decrease of overconsumption D) improvement of the environment
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A. the overload model B. the deficit model C. the anomie model D. the cultural tensions model