Explain Neugarten's views on social policy and the ways in which his views could translate into social policy
What will be an ideal response?
Neugarten argues that people should focus on poverty, not old age, as the key social problem in devising social policy. Neugarten's position regarding policies focusing on poverty and not age would result in Medicare being available to all people at age 65, but financial independent elderly people paying a higher cost of a premium for Medicare. Social Security could be based on need, with the poor elderly receiving larger payments and the well-to-do elderly receiving little or no Social Security.
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a. place students into an educational track or channel early in their educational careers b. are typified by open competition in the pursuit of degrees c. are typified by only a very subtle and informal kind of tracking or channeling d. are constructed around Affirmative Action programs
Which of the following approaches explains how racism can stigmatize a group as inferior so that the victimizationof that group can be justified?
a. contact hypothesis b. self-fulfilling prophecy c. normative approach d. exploitation theory
Georg Simmel was particularly interested in the role of "strangers" in social groups. According to Simmel, strangers have a unique perspective because while they are part of the group they also have _____.
a. their own emotional responses
b. debunking
c. critical distance
d. functionalism
Demography is considered part of the discipline of sociology because it focuses on:
a. quantitative research b. populations c. social inequality d. social organization