SW 200 EXAM 1 - MSU UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Answer:
Physiological survival needs Safety needs Belongingness needs Esteem needs Self-actualization
Question:
2. Conservative philosophy
Answer:
- Primary responsibility for maintaining the well-being of people with the individual and family
- Depends on the market economy to drive the economy
- Tends toward a protectionist national view of issues
Question:
3. Liberal philosophy
Answer:
- More substantial role for government and other social structures in meeting basic needs and in the use of
social programs to redistribute income and at least partially influence the economy
- Expects government to actively address global issues
Question:
4. The political climate at any time will affect:
Answer:
the degree to which society will take responsibility for the welfare of its members and embrace social
programs to maximize the well-being of its citizens
Question:
5. Conservative dominant society
Answer:
- Society assumes responsibility for the most basic needs (physiological survival and safety)
- Social programs limited to activities such as food programs, provision for the homeless, intervention in
cases of child abuse
- Federal government has a small role
- Primary responsibility is the individual / family
- State/city/community helps
Question:
6. Liberal dominant society
,Answer:
- Society viewed as needing to also address belongingness, esteem, and/or self-actualization needs
- Likely to be support for additional social programs (Family counseling, mental health, services for
persons with disabilities, programs aimed at social structures to try to prevent social problems from
emerging
- Believe in bigger govt. having a bigger role
- More taxes
Question:
7. social welfare
Answer:
- citizen's well-being
- society's organized efforts to meet some human needs
- The translation of society's dominant social philosophies into social policies, to be carried out by a
system of human services agencies and delivered by human services professionals, in order to meet the
socially related needs of individuals, families and other households, groups, and/or communities through
programs offering social provisions, personal services, and/or social action
Question:
8. social welfare programs
Answer:
Developed to help people function more satisfactorily in their interactions with others and thus lead to
more fulfilling lives
Question:
9. social programs: early years
Answer:
- US was largely rural, economy based on family farms and local trade
- Social programs were limited (Besides cases of widows, orphans, physical disabilities, or mental illness)
Question:
10. social programs: Industrial society (1800s)
Answer:
- The family (extended) could not meet many of the needs of its members -->
- Had to move to distant locations to find jobs (less availability of support)
- Work depended on specialized skills in the use of machines (those without suitable skills/intelligence
became expendable)
- Competition for jobs (Large numbers of skilled immigrants seeking to enter labor market)
--> Social welfare programs began to expand because many individuals and families could no longer be
self-sufficient
Question:
11. social programs: current
, Answer:
- Economy has become more global and increasingly tied to electronic technology (Alters structure of
society)
- Families no longer required to work as unit to survive (General well-being of members often depends on
multiple breadwinners)
- Individuals can work somewhat in isolation (home office- Regular social interaction with colleagues is
lessened)
- Few people who are highly skilled in technology can complete work that once required many laborers
(Job displacement - especially those with disabilities)
- Moved social welfare programs to an increasingly central place in US society
Question:
12. social welfare: colonial times (1700s)
Answer:
- Average intelligence and willingness to work hard can usually succeed
- Could readily acquire property and produce at least the necessities of life
- Agricultural society (crops/hunting/working the land)
- Family is responsible for family (economically)
- Entire family works to support the entire family (Sharply defined roles)
- Mutual aid
Question:
13. mutual aid
Answer:
- Families would band together into loosely knit communities and share resources
- Trade centers -> market economy evolved
Question:
14. social welfare: Industrial Revolution (1800s)
Answer:
- From land to cities
- Dynamics of family shifted
--- Man of family is responsible economically; Individual breadwinner was key to survival
--- Women responsible for home/children
- Vulnerable population groups (immigrants, elderly, minorities, women, disabled) -> Reduced
opportunity for employment -> Less access to meaningful/rewarding jobs
- Social problems increased (Society had to create new ways to respond to human needs)
- Puritan ethic
- volunteer movement began
Question:
15. Puritan ethic
Answer:
- only those with a moral defect required assistance
- Suffered from a moral weakness and viewed as sinful
--> Taxpayers resent contributing to human services
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Answer:
Physiological survival needs Safety needs Belongingness needs Esteem needs Self-actualization
Question:
2. Conservative philosophy
Answer:
- Primary responsibility for maintaining the well-being of people with the individual and family
- Depends on the market economy to drive the economy
- Tends toward a protectionist national view of issues
Question:
3. Liberal philosophy
Answer:
- More substantial role for government and other social structures in meeting basic needs and in the use of
social programs to redistribute income and at least partially influence the economy
- Expects government to actively address global issues
Question:
4. The political climate at any time will affect:
Answer:
the degree to which society will take responsibility for the welfare of its members and embrace social
programs to maximize the well-being of its citizens
Question:
5. Conservative dominant society
Answer:
- Society assumes responsibility for the most basic needs (physiological survival and safety)
- Social programs limited to activities such as food programs, provision for the homeless, intervention in
cases of child abuse
- Federal government has a small role
- Primary responsibility is the individual / family
- State/city/community helps
Question:
6. Liberal dominant society
,Answer:
- Society viewed as needing to also address belongingness, esteem, and/or self-actualization needs
- Likely to be support for additional social programs (Family counseling, mental health, services for
persons with disabilities, programs aimed at social structures to try to prevent social problems from
emerging
- Believe in bigger govt. having a bigger role
- More taxes
Question:
7. social welfare
Answer:
- citizen's well-being
- society's organized efforts to meet some human needs
- The translation of society's dominant social philosophies into social policies, to be carried out by a
system of human services agencies and delivered by human services professionals, in order to meet the
socially related needs of individuals, families and other households, groups, and/or communities through
programs offering social provisions, personal services, and/or social action
Question:
8. social welfare programs
Answer:
Developed to help people function more satisfactorily in their interactions with others and thus lead to
more fulfilling lives
Question:
9. social programs: early years
Answer:
- US was largely rural, economy based on family farms and local trade
- Social programs were limited (Besides cases of widows, orphans, physical disabilities, or mental illness)
Question:
10. social programs: Industrial society (1800s)
Answer:
- The family (extended) could not meet many of the needs of its members -->
- Had to move to distant locations to find jobs (less availability of support)
- Work depended on specialized skills in the use of machines (those without suitable skills/intelligence
became expendable)
- Competition for jobs (Large numbers of skilled immigrants seeking to enter labor market)
--> Social welfare programs began to expand because many individuals and families could no longer be
self-sufficient
Question:
11. social programs: current
, Answer:
- Economy has become more global and increasingly tied to electronic technology (Alters structure of
society)
- Families no longer required to work as unit to survive (General well-being of members often depends on
multiple breadwinners)
- Individuals can work somewhat in isolation (home office- Regular social interaction with colleagues is
lessened)
- Few people who are highly skilled in technology can complete work that once required many laborers
(Job displacement - especially those with disabilities)
- Moved social welfare programs to an increasingly central place in US society
Question:
12. social welfare: colonial times (1700s)
Answer:
- Average intelligence and willingness to work hard can usually succeed
- Could readily acquire property and produce at least the necessities of life
- Agricultural society (crops/hunting/working the land)
- Family is responsible for family (economically)
- Entire family works to support the entire family (Sharply defined roles)
- Mutual aid
Question:
13. mutual aid
Answer:
- Families would band together into loosely knit communities and share resources
- Trade centers -> market economy evolved
Question:
14. social welfare: Industrial Revolution (1800s)
Answer:
- From land to cities
- Dynamics of family shifted
--- Man of family is responsible economically; Individual breadwinner was key to survival
--- Women responsible for home/children
- Vulnerable population groups (immigrants, elderly, minorities, women, disabled) -> Reduced
opportunity for employment -> Less access to meaningful/rewarding jobs
- Social problems increased (Society had to create new ways to respond to human needs)
- Puritan ethic
- volunteer movement began
Question:
15. Puritan ethic
Answer:
- only those with a moral defect required assistance
- Suffered from a moral weakness and viewed as sinful
--> Taxpayers resent contributing to human services
