1 .		A problem becomes a social problem when it involves:    a. personal troubles   b. public issues   c. deviance   d. functionalism
2 .		Behaviors or characteristics are labeled deviant if they:    a. violate group norms   b. involve interdependence   c. highlight individualism   d. establish group norms
3 .		Most people define a social problem as behavior that:    a. focuses on problem individuals   b. tries to change the dominant economic, social, and political institutions   c. deviates from the norms and standards of society   d. fits within a person-blame framework
4 .		The postmodernist view sees the turn of the twenty-first century as an age of exceptional:    a. conflict resolution   b. empathetic connections   c. confusion   d. feminist orientation
5 .		Which of the following conditions can play a part in the development of a social problem?    a. extreme social and cultural diversity   b. decline in the effectiveness of social institutions   c. deviation from group values and norms   d. all of the above
6 .		Social policies are inherently controversial because they are based, at least in part, on    a. ethnocentric notions   b. differences among social values   c. scientific proof   d. objectivity
7 .		Robert Merton believed that you could understand any social arrangement by isolating the function it plays in keeping society stable; and if that arrangement is disruptive, it is considered:    a. manifest   b. dysfunctional   c. conflict-oriented   d. deviant
8 .		Both the structural functionalism and conflict theory perspectives study social problems at the macro level, which means that:    a. both focus on contextualized patterns of social interaction   b. both may be viewed as bottom-up approaches   c. both begin with a focus on people and move from there to institutions and social structures   d. both conceptualize society in broad, abstract terms
9 .		Which of the following is not a component of a recognized social problem?    a. It always involves a class struggle.   b. It causes physical or mental damage to individuals or society.   c. It offends the values or standards of a segment of society   d. It persists for an extended period of time
10 .		Hypotheses, statements or predictions that can be compared with factual realities, can be either deductive or:    a. reductive   b. operationa   c. inductive   d. empirical