Jacob Ladder developed a pure model of the "college student." He identified several characteristics that make up this picture of a hypothetical student. Next, he examined many college students and compared them to his idealized model
He discovered that students at private colleges fit the model better than students at public colleges. He also learned that women fit the model better than men and that the model fits students from small towns better than those from large cities, suburbs, or rural areas. He used
A) successive approximation.
B) illustrative method.
C) narrative analysis.
D) ideal type analysis.
E) regression analysis.
D
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Duncan, a social worker, watches late night television just so he can tell the dirtiest jokes at work the next day. He
thinks he is ever so clever. He enjoys the guffaws of some of his fellow co-workers, most of whom are men. He ignores the scornful scowls he sometimes gets from Virginia and Anne after telling some of his best ones. Duncan passes these latter responses off. He thinks to himself, “What’s wrong with those old women. Don’t they have a sense of humor?” This is the ethical thing to do.
a. True b. False
. During the client interview, the worker’s primary objective should be to establish a(n) ______.
A. contract B. agency orientation C. relationship D. boundary rules
Greenwood’s landmark analysis of the status social work as a profession concluded that _____.
A. social work had gained professional status because of its noteworthy leadership in social reform B. social work had fulfilled all of the criteria for achieving the status of a profession C. social work was not yet a profession because it had no regulatory code of ethics D. social work was not yet a profession because it had failed to develop a systematic body of knowledge on which to base practice
When a researcher chooses to match groups of people with attributes that match the
important variables of the study, this is known as what? a. Individual Matching b. Controlling c. Sampling d. Aggregate Matching