final exam review SOAN 117

Adjunctification refers to colleges increasingly relying on cheap, part-time labor to teach courses.

Which process studies how certain conditions become socially constructed as social problems?

In 2022, 25% of Harvard's freshman class was made up of legacy students.

College students from lower, middle, and upper-class backgrounds graduate college at approximately the same rates.

Students who get an advantage in college admissions because of a family member who attended the same school are called:

During moral panics, moral entrepreneurs are people or groups that are viewed as responsible for the threat.

Schools today are more racially and ethnically segregated than they were in 1988.

Grounds typically use a rhetorical recipe, consisting of a typifying example, a descriptive name, and statistics.

Claimsmaking is the first step of the social problems process.

Policymakers construct __________, narratives that point to what caused a troubling condition

Position issues are issues that nearly everyone agrees about.

School funding, on average, is dramatically different in poor vs. rich counties.

Moral entrepreneurs are individuals and groups that propose and pass laws, social policy, and other forms of regulation.

A claimsmaker who is trying to reach a specific audience of young, Black Americans is practicing _____________.

Medicalization refers to increased numbers of prescriptions written to patients.

The documentary 13th most closely relates to which stage of the social problems process?

In this class, we define social problems using the objectivist outlook.

________ is the study of persuasion and involves appeals to emotion and reason.

In the past, experts were _________ but today they are usually __________.

Why do activists practice frame alignment?

Although HIV/AIDS is much less of a problem than it once was, it persists in certain populations in the United States.

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is an example of:

Social Movement Organizations typically seek ownership over a social problem so they have more influence with policy.

Which of the following is not a typical characteristic of moral panics?

Which of the following is not an explanation for why adjunctification has occurred in higher education?

Mass incarceration refers to the significant increase in the number of people in prison in the U.S. which began in...

Beatlemania is an example of a ________.

Which of the following is not an example of a constraint that media workers face?

The causal story of a social problem is usually straightforward.

What % of people in the United States live in Poverty?

What similarity is there between the HIV crisis and the Opioid Epidemic?

The Varsity Blues scandal involved what?

The film Reefer Madness could be considered part of a ________ against the use of marijuana.

Secondary claims are counterclaims, or claims that go against the initial claim.

Activists, the media, and policymakers usually defer to experts.

Social movement organizations strive for ownership by using all of the following except:

ACT UP took advantage of a political opportunity to raise awareness about their cause.

Today, the U.S. incarcerates more of its own people than any other developed country in the world.

Which is not a part of a claim?

What is an advantage that students from upper-class backgrounds have in college admissions?