Test Bank Docx Ch9 Social Structure and Social Institutions - Human Behavior Person & Environment 6e Answer Key + Test Bank by Elizabeth D. Hutchison. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 9: Social Structure and Social Institutions
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Multiple Choice
1. Stable, organized, patterned sets of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations that provide a basis for behavior in particular areas of social life are ______.
a. communities
b. municipalities
c. social institutions
d. functions
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Specific social positions that carry expected behaviors with them are ______.
a. social structures
b. social classes
c. social institutions
d. statuses
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. A set of interrelated social institutions developed by humans to provide stability to society and to order individual lives is known as a ______.
a. social structure
b. social class
c. social development
d. status
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Regulating procreation and conducting initial socialization are some of the functions of which social institution?
a. government and politics
b. religion
c. health care
d. family and kinship
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Helping to maintain social control and answering questions about meaning and life purpose are some of the functions of which social institution?
a. government and politics
b. religion
c. health care
d. family and kinship
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Maintaining and enforcing societal rules, resolving internal and external conflicts, and mobilizing collective resources to meet societal goals are the functions of which social institution?
a. government and politics
b. religion
c. health care
d. family and kinship
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Regulating production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services are the functions of which social institution?
a. health care
b. social welfare
c. economy
d. government and politics
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Passing along formal knowledge from one generation to the next and helping to socialize individuals are the functions of which social institution?
a. family and kinship
b. education
c. mass media
d. religion
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Promoting interdependence as well as dealing with issues of dependence are some of the functions of which social institution?
a. social welfare
b. family and kinship
c. government and politics
d. education
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The social institution that primarily promotes general health is which social institution?
a. family and kinship
b. education
c. social welfare
d. health care
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. The social institution that helps manage the flow of information, images, and ideas is which social institution?
a. education
b. mass media
c. government and politics
d. social welfare
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Family life where there is high involvement but maintenance of a separate household represents which of the following global trends?
a. continued high divorce rate
b. mass migration
c. unmarried cohabitation
d. modified extended family
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Trends in the Family and Kinship Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which of the following historical factors is important in order to understand the complexity of government and politics?
a. feminization of wage labor
b. mass migration
c. economic globalization
d. military power
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Government and Political Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which of the following is a term generally used to describe contemporary structures of inequality?
a. social class
b. social structure
c. social institutions
d. status
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Defining inequality as the natural, divine order and stating that no efforts should be made to alter it is which of following?
a. structural determinism
b. radical antithesis
c. conservative thesis
d. contemporary debate
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. ______ sees equality as the natural, divine order, and inequality as based on abuse of privilege.
a. Structural determinism
b. Radical antithesis
c. Conservative thesis
d. Contemporary debate
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Who among the following theorists saw class divisions as based on production roles?
a. Max Weber
b. Gerhard Lenski
c. Mary Ellen Kondrat
d. Karl Marx
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classical Sociological Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Who among the following theorists saw a class division as based on life chances in the market place?
a. Max Weber
b. Gerhard Lenski
c. Mary Ellen Kondrat
d. Karl Marx
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classical Sociological Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. A position taken by social scientists who see human behavior as highly determined by one’s position in the social class structure.
a. neocolonialism
b. human agency
c. structural determinism
d. colonialism
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Structural Determinism Versus Human Agency
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. A concept endorsed by social scientists who emphasize the capacity of humans to create their own realities and who give central roles to human actors, not social structures.
a. neocolonialism
b. human agency
c. structural determinism
d. colonialism
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Structural Determinism Versus Human Agency
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. What is another term for ‘society’?
a. social structure
b. social institution
c. social programming
d. community
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. The theory which attempts to explain that some countries remain poor because they retain traditional attitudes and technology is ______.
a. modernization theory
b. dependency theory
c. economic globalization
d. conflict theory
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Contemporary Debate
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. According to Karl Marx, what causes people to transform society because of the awareness of social class differences?
a. structural determinism
b. the contemporary debate
c. class consciousness
d. dependency theory
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classical Sociological Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. According to the world systems perspective, which transnational institutions reinforce the hegemony of the core sector?
a. World Bank
b. International Monetary Fund
c. World Trade Organization
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Contemporary Debate
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. The latest global analysis indicates that ______ has the highest percentage of its population online.
a. Asia
b. North America
c. Europe
d. South America
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Trends in the Mass Media Institution
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. The implications of the ‘hardening of the digital divide’ for social equality can best be understood by which theoretical perspective?
a. systems
b. humanistic
c. conflict
d. behavioral
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Mass Media Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Issues related to social media that call for social work advocacy include ______.
a. underrepresentation of minorities
b. the quickening spread of misinformation
c. hardening of the digital divide
d. all issues above call for social work advocacy
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Mass Media Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Which trend in family institution is noted in societies around the world?
a. increasing fertility
b. greater valuing of obedience and conformity in children
c. rise in divorce rates
d. ongoing power differential between men and women
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Family and Kinship Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Between 1980 and 2013, the U.S. has ______ its expenditures on social welfare as a percentage of GDP.
a. eliminated
b. increased
c. decreased
d. not changed
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Trends in the Social Welfare Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Structural determinism asserts ______.
a. human behavior is determined by social class
b. humans create their own realities
c. collective action is needed for social change
d. social structures and individual human behavior are mutually influential
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Structural Determinism Versus Human Agency
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. Which of the following statements regarding global inequality is true?
a. There has been a significant decline in global inequality.
b. There has been a slight decline in global inequality.
c. There has been a significant increase in global inequality.
d. There has been a slight increase in global inequality.
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends in Global and U.S. Social Institutions
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. Which has the highest level of inequality of all wealthy industrialized nations?
a. Denmark
b. Sweden
c. the United States
d. the United Kingdom
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends in Global and U.S. Social Institutions
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Which has the highest childhood mortality rate of all wealthy industrialized nations?
a. the United States
b. China
c. Canada
d. Spain
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Trends in the Health Care Institution
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. Which has the lowest life expectancy rate of all wealthy industrialized nations?
a. France
b. Switzerland
c. Israel
d. the United States
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Trends in the Health Care Institution
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. The ingredients of economic globalization include all of the following except ______.
a. global consumers
b. global production system
c. global social media
d. global labor force
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Economic Institution
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Social institutions can be defined as stable, organized, patterned sets of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations that provide a basis for behavior in particular areas of social life.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The process of globalization interconnects people’s lives around the world economically, politically, environmentally, and culturally.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The Gini index is not the most commonly used measure of income inequality.
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends in Global and U.S. Social Institutions
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The primary responsibilities of the family and kinship institution are to regulate procreation, provide the initial socialization of new members to society, and provide mutual support.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Religious institutions are considered a secondary institution for addressing spiritual and ethical issues in society.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. The responsibility of the government and political institutions in society is to formulate how decisions get made and enforced for the society as a whole.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Income inequality is growing between the poorest 10% and the richest 10% of the world’s people.
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Trends in Global and U.S. Social Institutions
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The primary responsibility for regulating the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services lies with the economic institution.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Passing along formal knowledge from one generation to the next is still the primary function of family and church in today’s society.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The function of social welfare institutions is to allocate goods, services, and opportunities, enhance social functioning of individuals, and contribute to the social health of a society.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Briefly describe the functions performed by the family and kinship institution.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Patterns of social life
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Briefly describe the functions performed by the social institution of religion.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Briefly describe the functions performed by the government and political institution.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Briefly describe the functions performed by the educational social institution.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What are the major differences between modernization theory and dependency theory?
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Contemporary Debate
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Define the three sectors identified by the world systems perspective and give an example of each.
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Contemporary Debate
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. What is critical consciousness and why is it an important aspect of social change?
Learning Objective: 9-5: Apply knowledge of social structure and social institutions to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Structural Determinism Versus Human Agency
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. What is a transnational corporation and what role do such corporations play in assisting developing countries?
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trends in the Government and Political Institution
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. Explain and discuss the effects of economic globalization on the institutions of government and economics in the United States as illustrated by contemporary trends in these areas. Why is it important for social workers to become observers of trends in the social world?
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Trends in the Economic Institution
Difficulty Level: Hard
10.. Explain and discuss the implications of the growing rate of social inequalities in contemporary life in the United States. Discuss the relationship of social inequality to poverty rates and demographic factors. Cite examples of social inequality as evidenced in the social institutions of education, health care, and family.
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Classical Sociological Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Using the experience of Leticia Renteria’s family’s struggle to make it in the United States as a frame of reference, briefly state the responsibilities of our eight social institutions and detail how well-or how poorly-these responsibilities were met regarding this family. What more can be done by some of the social institutions in regards to Leticia’s family?
Learning Objective: 9-2: Give examples of how social structure and social institutions give order and stability to social life.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Case Study, Patterns of Social Life
Difficulty Level: Hard
12. Compare and contrast the terms structural determinism and human agency. Summarize the debate between structural determinists and cultural determinists regarding the mutual influences of structure, culture, and behavior. State your own view as a future social worker.
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Structural Determinism Versus Human Agency
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. Explain and discuss the mass media institution and its influence on society. What important trends influence human behavior on both a positive and negative level? As social workers, what should we be concerned about in reference to mass media and its influence on human behavior?
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Trends in the Mass Media Institution
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Why is it important for social workers to understand the debate between neoliberalism and the world systems perspective? Discuss which perspective is most consistent with social work values and ethics.
Learning Objective: 9-3: Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Trends in the Government and Political Institution
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Explain and discuss the argument between Marx and Weber in terms of social equality.
Learning Objective: 9-4: Analyze different theories of social inequality, including both classical and contemporary.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Classical Sociological Theories of Social Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Discuss the trends in the institution of religion within the context of globalization and conflict theory.
Learning Objective: 9.3 Recognize national and global trends in eight major social institutions (government and political, economic, education, health care, social welfare, religious, mass media, and family and kinship).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Trends in the Religious Institution
Difficulty Level: Hard
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