final exam review SOAN 117

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

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

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

The Varsity Blues scandal involved what?

The causal story of a social problem is usually straightforward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beatlemania is an example of a ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Medicalization refers to increased numbers of prescriptions written to patients.

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

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

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

Which is not a part of a claim?

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

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

Why do activists practice frame alignment?

Position issues are issues that nearly everyone agrees about.

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