Which of the following is true about settlement houses?
a. They provided food, day care, clubs, activities,
milk, financial assistance, free legal services
b. They also campaigned and advocated for social
reforms like tenement protection, improved
sanitation, labor reform, etc.
c. They actively tried to improve the communities
where they were located
d. all of the above
Answer: d. all of the above
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Control theory seeks to explain why individuals don't commit deviant acts as
opposed to why they do. a. true b. false
Education serves an important purpose in all societies. At the __________, people must acquire the basic knowledge and skills they need to survive in society
a. mesolevel b. macrolevel c. tertiary level d. microlevel
Advocates for using socioeconomic or income-based integration rather than race-based integration argue a. socioeconomic status more directly achieves thegoal of racial integration by raising academic achievement
b. race has no bearing on academic achievement. c. the only way to achieve quality education for all racial and ethnic groups is to desegregate schools. d. attending a racially desegregated school negatively affects the academic achievement of white students.
The "secret" of achieving high survey response rates in the NHSLS project was
a. thorough interviewer training and a highly mobilized field staff who conducted face-to-face interviews. b. the result of years of careful planning including several pilot studies to identify participants for self-administered survey forms. c. thorough study of areas and neighborhoods where subjects were to be contacted for interviews. d. based on careful probability sampling and selection of subpopulations to be interviewed.