Quiz 1 for Social Problems, SYG 2010

For each of the following statements, answer either true or false by completely darkening the appropriate circle on the answer sheet with a no. 2 pencil. Also, be sure that only your social security number and name have been entered, and that appropriate circles have been darkened on your answer sheet. You will gain 4 points if you do this correctly. Please note:

1=true 2=false

1. The functionalist perspective emphasizes the inevitability of change in a society.

2. The number of people employed by the federal government has remained about the same since 1970.

3. According to the theory of demographic transition, high birth rates and declining death rates are found in the preindustrial stage.

4. The official definition of poverty used by the federal government is the absolute definition

5. Most poor people in the U.S. (below the poverty line) receive welfare (cash public assistance income).

6. Most of the poor (living in poverty) in the United States are white.

7. In the 1990s, the federal government implemented a program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (a program which shifts the focus of federal assistance away from income maintenance).

8. In the past, the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) discouraged developers from allowing blacks to purchase homes in white suburbs and discouraged loans in mostly black areas. (415)

9. Suburban areas have lower crime rates than all but the smallest cities and rural areas. (416)

10. According to Amitai Etzioni (in his book Capital Corruption), constituency representing organizations (CROs) are less harmful to democracy than special interest groups (SIGs).

11. Large, high-rise apartment buildings have lower crime rates than smaller, low-rise buildings because the large buildings have more money to spend on security.

12. The old homeless population of the 1950s was more likely to have some sort of shelter than the new homeless population of the 1980s.

13. Urban renewal has contributed to the emergence of the new homeless population in the 1980s.

14. Unions reached a peak membership of almost ¼ of the labor force in the 1950s and this has largely been declining ever since that time.

15. Presently, political action committees can legally spend as much money as they want on TV commercials attacking a favored candidate’s opponent.

16. Many political action committees are organized by political parties (Democratic, Republican, etc.)