SOC 4850 Exam 1
Who negotiates the understanding of social conditions into specific social problems?
Claim Makers
What does it mean to operationalize a variable?
Creates specific questions about sexual circumstances that constitutes "sexual abuse".
What term means that victims are often exposed to multiple forms of violence and
maltreatment?
Polyvictimization
Some policy argues for programs that simultaneously address violence against children,
the elderly, and intimate partners simultaneously. What is the reasoning behind this?
All forms of violence are interconnected.
Practices such as widow burning and female genital cutting are not protected by the UN
because they reject what?
Cultural Relativism.
A church organization raises funds to go to Washington, DC, and schedule meetings
with legislators to talk about sexual child abuse in the church. Which of the following is it
an example of?
Claim Making.
Which of the following is NOT involved in the shift of a social condition to a social
problem?
Social Fatigue.
If the cultural practice of boys becoming men after ingesting semen is not considered
violence, then we are engaging in what?
Cultural Relativism.
____________ challenge a social practice to redefine it as a social problem.
Claim Makers.
What practice in the United States is currently not considered abuse, but some claims
makers are emerging to consider it abuse?
Circumcision.
Who defines social problems for the public?
Winning Claim makers.
, Up until __________ times, children were regarded as property.
Ancient.
Infanticide is sometimes seen as a solution to _______________.
Unwanted Infants(births).
When it comes to infanticide, who is most likely to be killed?
Girls.
Parents choosing to selectively abort a child with unwanted features, such a sex or
disability, is called
Selective Feticide.
What previous policy in China led to a high practice of feticide?
One-Child policy
Which phrase means that the state has the right and responsibility to protect those who
cannot protect themselves?
Parens Patriae.
Why is the house of refuge movement historically important?
It was the first attempt of the government to intervene on child abuse.
What precipitating event led to the creation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children in 1874?
The abuse case of Mary Ellen.
What helped to establish child abuse as a wide spread problem?
Diagnosis of battered child syndrome.
Child Physical Abuse is:
Symptoms from intentional physical assault.
What event marked the medical community as claim makers?
Addition of CPA as a clinical diagnosis and battered child syndrome.
What key claims maker caused the child protection movement to flourish?
Medical Professionals.
In which decade was child abuse widely recognized as a social problem in the United
States?
1960s.
Recognition of sexual child abuse can be traced back to which important scholar?
Freud.
Who negotiates the understanding of social conditions into specific social problems?
Claim Makers
What does it mean to operationalize a variable?
Creates specific questions about sexual circumstances that constitutes "sexual abuse".
What term means that victims are often exposed to multiple forms of violence and
maltreatment?
Polyvictimization
Some policy argues for programs that simultaneously address violence against children,
the elderly, and intimate partners simultaneously. What is the reasoning behind this?
All forms of violence are interconnected.
Practices such as widow burning and female genital cutting are not protected by the UN
because they reject what?
Cultural Relativism.
A church organization raises funds to go to Washington, DC, and schedule meetings
with legislators to talk about sexual child abuse in the church. Which of the following is it
an example of?
Claim Making.
Which of the following is NOT involved in the shift of a social condition to a social
problem?
Social Fatigue.
If the cultural practice of boys becoming men after ingesting semen is not considered
violence, then we are engaging in what?
Cultural Relativism.
____________ challenge a social practice to redefine it as a social problem.
Claim Makers.
What practice in the United States is currently not considered abuse, but some claims
makers are emerging to consider it abuse?
Circumcision.
Who defines social problems for the public?
Winning Claim makers.
, Up until __________ times, children were regarded as property.
Ancient.
Infanticide is sometimes seen as a solution to _______________.
Unwanted Infants(births).
When it comes to infanticide, who is most likely to be killed?
Girls.
Parents choosing to selectively abort a child with unwanted features, such a sex or
disability, is called
Selective Feticide.
What previous policy in China led to a high practice of feticide?
One-Child policy
Which phrase means that the state has the right and responsibility to protect those who
cannot protect themselves?
Parens Patriae.
Why is the house of refuge movement historically important?
It was the first attempt of the government to intervene on child abuse.
What precipitating event led to the creation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children in 1874?
The abuse case of Mary Ellen.
What helped to establish child abuse as a wide spread problem?
Diagnosis of battered child syndrome.
Child Physical Abuse is:
Symptoms from intentional physical assault.
What event marked the medical community as claim makers?
Addition of CPA as a clinical diagnosis and battered child syndrome.
What key claims maker caused the child protection movement to flourish?
Medical Professionals.
In which decade was child abuse widely recognized as a social problem in the United
States?
1960s.
Recognition of sexual child abuse can be traced back to which important scholar?
Freud.
