Explain the difference between the cultural deficit perspective and the strength and resilience perspective
What will be an ideal response?
While both deal with minority families, the cultural deficit perspective assumes that negative outcomes for
minorities are due to ways in which minority families are not "measuring up." The strength and resilience
perspective looks at how minority families have survived or even thrived despite racism, bigotry, and inequality.
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"Involved" grandparents usually __________.
A. actively engage in grandparenting and influence their grandchildren's lives B. act as supporters and buddies to their grandchildren C. complain about their grandchildren's childish behavior D. rarely visit their grandchildren
________ are plans and efforts established by local, regional, or national organizations and agencies designed to achieve a particular purpose with respect to the members of a society
a. Social theories c. Social hypotheses b. Social policies d. Social gatherings
Down syndrome is linked to:
a. alcohol abuse by the father. b. abnormalities of the 21st pair of chromosomes. c. sex-linked chromosomal abnormalities. d. alcohol abuse by the mother.
A neuroanatomist destroyed a dog's reticular formation to determine its function. Of the following, which is the most likely result? The dog:
a. could no longer hear. b. could no longer see. c. lapsed into a complete and irreversible coma. d. became hyper alert and no longer slept normally.