Public assistance programs that are means-tested, such as TANF, that provide benefits to those with very low or no income are not popular among the public. Discuss the reasons for this bias.
What will be an ideal response?
Must include public perception of the recipients and stereotypes about welfare recipients who are females and minorities. Additional points to be included are the propaganda by previous administrations such as President Reagan’s, values pertaining to the American individualism in terms of economic sufficiency of the family without dependence on the government, and the social factors such as welfare’s role in acting as a perverse incentive in marriage should be discussed.
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A disproportionate stratified sample is used when a. the sampling error is likely to be low. b. you want to make comparisons among subgroups in the population whensome of those subgroups are fairly uncommon
c. you want every element in the population to have the same chance ofappearing in the sample. d. it is not possible to use a probability sample.
One of the major reasons for using a stratified sample is:
a. to achieve a more representative sample b. to reduce sampling error for a given sample size. c. to make use of a sampling frame. d. to learn what the probability is of each unit in the population appearing in the sample.
Which of the following is not a potential source of trouble affecting networks?
A) ?Failure of social workers to value informal networks B) ?Negative relationships among network members C) ?Failure to share information among different networks D) ?Social workers giving informal networks high status
Which of the following statements is true about the literature review? A) It should be put off until the research question has been sharpened
B) It is a prime source for selecting a research question to begin with. C) It should be done exclusively in the library, not online. D) ?It should be limited to social work journal articles.