final exam review SOAN 117

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

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

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

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

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

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

Position issues are issues that nearly everyone agrees about.

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

Claimsmaking is the first step of the social problems process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beatlemania is an example of a ________.

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

The Varsity Blues scandal involved what?

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

The causal story of a social problem is usually straightforward.

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

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

Medicalization refers to increased numbers of prescriptions written to patients.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why do activists practice frame alignment?

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

Which is not a part of a claim?