SOCI 1160 Mini sp09 Exam 3 Ch 12, 15, 17
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MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1)The number of women arrested and incarcerated is 1) _______

A)growing faster than that for men.

B)lower than for men.

C)about the same as for men.

D)growing slower than that for men.

 

2)African Americans constitute 12 percent of the population at large, but about __________ percent of the prison population is African American. 2) _______

A)40 B) 50 C) 60 D) 70

 

3)Which of the following has the highest rate of violent crime? 3) _______

A)France B) Germany C) the U.S. D) Australia

 

4)Crimes that may offend the minority but do not harm other people are called __________ crimes. 4) _______

A)victimless B) moral order

C)white-collar D) blue-collar

 

5)The existing biases in the correctional system are reflected by all of the following except 5) _______

A)the well-to-do are less likely to be jailed, and if they are, they receive advantages in prison.

B)the crimes defined by official sources are those most likely to be committed by the poor.

C)the decline, since 1980, of mandatory sentencing regulations.

D)parole board members are political appointees and often reflect stereotyped notions.

 

6)What is the authors' explanation for the relationships between social class and the justice system? 6) _______

A)Economic deprivation may induce people to turn to crime to ease their situations.

B)The kinds of crimes listed by the FBI are those of the lower classes.

C)The police and others in the criminal justice system assume that lower-class people are criminal.

D)all of the above

 

7)The major characteristics of organized crime include all of the following except 7) _______

A)it depends on the corruption of the police and government officials for survival.

B)it is structured to ensure efficiency.

C)it supplies illegal goods and services that are in great demand.

D)it encourages entrepreneurial activities by its members.

 

8)Which of the following are considered to be a political crime? 8) _______

A)any illegal act intended to influence the political system

B)imprisonment or harassment by the powerful of those who act against established authority

C)disobedience of laws or governmental regulations

D)none of the above

 

9)The consequences of a biased judicial process includes all of the following except 9) _______

A)federal prison sentences overall are almost 50 percent higher for whites than for African Americans.

B)African Americans are seven times more likely than whites to be incarcerated.

C)African Americans are three times more likely than whites to be arrested.

D)nearly 30 percent of black males go to state or federal prison for more than one year.

 

10)All of the following are true of the breadwinner-homemaker pattern except 10) ______

A)it is an ideal.

B)it never applied to immigrants and racial minorities.

C)it is closely related to a family's economic conditions.

D)it has become more prevalent.

 

11)More extended kinship ties, obligations, and interests are more characteristic of the __________ class. 11) ______

A)lower B) middle

C)upper D) both A and C

 

12)The decline in the size of households are related to all of the following reasons except 12) ______

A)increased use of family planning.

B)increased incidence of childless couples.

C)increased incidence of people living alone.

D)increased incidence of single-parent families.

 

13)Which of the following is a commonality between dual-earner families and single-parent families? 13) ______

A)the limited influence they have over their children

B)their lack of financial resources

C)their lack of adequate social supports

D)their lack of parental support

 

14)Of the following, the greatest concern for working mothers is 14) ______

A)getting adequate health insurance.

B)adequate childcare.

C)dead-end jobs.

D)harassment in the workplace.

 

15)When wages are insufficient or unstable, working-class families manage by pooling resources including all of the following except 15) ______

A)reverting to nuclear family form.

B)lending each other money.

C)sharing meals with each other.

D)exchanging babysitting with each other.

 

16)Research on childcare has found all of the following to be true except 16) ______

A)children need enduring relationships with a limited number of specific individuals.

B)children benefit from "multiple parenting."

C)children reared in childcare are more adult-oriented in their relationships.

D)childcare does not negatively affect the cognitive development of children.

 

17)Which of the following reflects the decision made by the U.S. government to disproportionately help the elderly over the young? 17) ______

A)The elderly have electoral power that children lack.

B)Children have fewer lobbying advocates.

C)The elderly are well organized.

D)all of the above

 

18)All of the following are true of divorce except 18) ______

A)the higher the education for males, the lower the incidence of divorce.

B)the majority of people who divorce will remarry.

C)the higher the education of females, the higher the incidence of divorce.

D)the younger the age of marriage, the greater the chance for divorce.

 

19)All of the following are true of health care for the poor except 19) ______

A)when they have access to health care services, they are often given inferior treatment.

B)they can't afford the costs of physicians, dentists, and hospitals so they often do without care.

C)when the uninsured go to a doctor they pay more for services that the well-to-do insured patients.

D)all of the above

 

20)Which of the following is a serious problem associated with Medicaid? 20) ______

A)Many physicians recruit Medicaid patients that are not even sick.

B)Many physicians refuse to treat Medicaid patients.

C)Medicaid patients use a greater-than-proportional share of the health care system.

D)None of the above is a problem.

 

21)Race makes a difference in individuals' health in which of the following ways? 21) ______

A)infant mortality B) life expectancy

C)heart disease rates D) all of the above

 

22)The poor receive inferior service from the health care community for all of the following reasons except 22) ______

A)they are often served by understaffed clinics and hospitals.

B)their lack of concern about health issues.

C)they tend to have a relatively passive relationship with physicians.

D)there are disproportionately fewer physicians in poor urban and poor rural areas.

 

23)Women are less likely to have health insurance for which of the following reasons? 23) ______

A)Their problems are more likely to risk unnecessary surgery for cosmetic reasons.

B)They are more likely employed in part-time jobs that do not provide health insurance.

C)Actually, they are more likely to have health insurance than men.

D)They do not suffer from the severe health issues that characterize their male counterparts.

 

24)Which of the following is the reason given by the authors for the shift away from fee-for-service to managed care? 24) ______

A)patients overusing system B) billing fraud

C)physician greed D) spiraling cost

 

25)All of the following are true of the relationship between Doctors and their patients' care except: 25) ______

A)They are rewarded for prescribing remedies that cost less than the norm.

B)They are penalized for prescribing remedies that cost more than the norm.

C)They spend more time with their patients than before.

D)They are rewarded for seeing more patients.

 

26)Companies switch from providing employee medical benefits through fee-for-service arrangements with private physicians to HMOs primarily because HMOs 26) ______

A)meet all the employee's medical needs under one umbrella group.

B)refer patients only to physicians that are situated in nearby areas.

C)absorb much of the costs of expensive new medical technology.

D)limit the cost of employee medical care for employers.

 

27)"Medlining" in health care refers to 27) ______

A)HMOs avoiding acceptance of the sick as patients.

B)providing triage units instead of emergency room care.

C)the practice of dumping Medicaid patients.

D)state-level-government-financed health insurance.

 

28)Although HMOs were designed to provide good managed care, preventive medicine, and lower treatment expenses, the worst of them offer few preventive procedures except 28) ______

A)beta blockers for protection against a heart attack.

B)mammograms.

C)prenatal care.

D)immunizations to children.

 

29.  According to Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, our problems in America stem from

a.  racism    b.  fear    c.  poverty    d.  all the above

 

30.  According to Micheael Moore in Sicko, our health insurance companies

a.  use preventative methods so you can stay well before it costs them more money

b.  provide for most routine health care services such as mammmograms

c.  are set up to deny most claims so they make money

d.  none of the above

b.