Study Guide: Single Parent Households, Education, Health Care, and Social Change, Exams of Introduction to Sociology

Download Study Guide: Single Parent Households, Education, Health Care, and Social Change and more Exams Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! ISS 210:730 Fall 2010 Final Exam Study Guide Social Problems Chapter 15 What are the challenges facing single parent households? Compare and contrast resources and life chances of poor and affluent families. How are these related to modern and postmodern families? In what ways do poor families adjust to make ends meet? How does the U.S. Census Bureau define households and families? How do these definitions compare to our expectations? Under what circumstances is child abuse most likely to occur? How does the well-being of children in single-parent homes compare to those in nuclear families? What factors are most important in affecting whether children thrive in the family? Chapter 16 What is the relationship between education and family income? Compare and contrast the experiences of children from poor families with those of children from affluent families in terms of education. In what ways is education funded? What are the consequences of school funding? What is curriculum standardization and how does it relate to educational inequality? What are the functions of the US education system? What changes are necessary in order to equalize educational opportunities? Chapter 17 How does access to health care vary in the United States along lines of race, class and gender? Do Americans have equal access? Compare and contrast patient dumping, medlining and defensive medicine. How do the authors feel about the US healthcare system? What types of reform do they suggest? Chapter 19 What is American individualism? What is human agency? How do they relate to social change? According to your authors, what are the necessary steps to solving social problems? What strategies do they recommend for instituting social change? Do they support devolution? What are the five principles your authors offer to guide public policy? What current government policies do they see as problematic? Why is sociological research largely ignored by government officials and business leaders? Compare and contrast democracy with plutocracy. What does the phrase collective sin suggest? What are some of the “progressive” suggestions the authors make? How do they propose we get there? Page 1 of 3 Half the Sky Unit 5 How often are women maimed or killed as a result of male violence? How does this compare with other leading causes of death among women? Who is Mukhtar Mai? How has the Pakistani government responded to her cause? What are honor killings? Where are they most likely to occur and under what circumstances? What does it mean when rape is referred to as a “weapon of war”? Be familiar with examples from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. What steps were taken to hide the prevalence of gang rapes of Sudan? How does this compare to the circumstances in the Congo? How has the UN responded to the situation in Congo? Compare and contrast fistula and obstructed labor. Under what circumstances are they most likely to occur and how are they related? What is the most effective way to increase monetary donations to social causes? What do the authors argue is the most important activist effort Westerners should participate in? How have global maternal mortality rates changed in the last 40 years? What are the leading causes of maternal mortality? Unit 6 Review the video on Paul Farmer and his discussion on treatable diseases. What is the Global Gag Rule? What isn’t it? How do men and women compare in their vulnerability to HIV exposure during heterosexual sex. What is PEPFAR and how is it helping to address the global AIDS crisis? What measures should be taken to reduce fertility rates in developing nations? What is the most cost effective and successful method for reducing teen pregnancies in the developing world? Review the status of women according to the World Economic Forum. What factors explain the status of women in predominantly Muslim nations? Be familiar with the Injaz program and its focus. What is the relationship between terrorism and Islam according to your authors? How do the authors feel about foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan? Where would they like to see that money invested? Unit 7 What is the Oportunidades program? Why is it successful? Be familiar with the obstacles that prevent many young girls from attending school full-time. What measures can be taken to increase their attendance worldwide? What is Camfed? What types of initiatives do they support? Understand microfinancing and the circumstances under which microloans are approved and distributed. How do microloans contribute to the status of women? How has the status of women changed in East Asia in recent years? How have these changes impacted the economy in this region of the world? What role have sweatshops played in these changes? Be familiar with the Rwandan genocide. In what ways has the status of women changed as a result? Page 2 of 3