SOCIAL PROBLEMS CONTINUITY AND
CHANGE 2ND EDITION BARKAN TESTED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ social policy questions
Answer: how is success defined?
what are the costs of success?
who should the polices help?
◉ Social Policy
Answer: refers to form strategies used to address social problems.
◉ conservative
Answer: seek to limit the scope of societal change. Focus on
individual not social failure
◉ liberal
Answer: favors more sweeping change in society. Emphasize
organized social reform
◉ radical
Answer: argues for wholesale social change to solve a social
problem. Can be ultra liberal or ultra organized.
, ◉ policy strategies
Answer: along a continuum of "left" to "right" politics
◉ social and cultural strategies
Answer: debates involving moral judgement about how people
should live
◉ economic strategies
Answer: debates about how a society should distribute its
material resources
◉ social stratification
Answer: a social system which hierarchically ranks categories of
people. Ranking is based on the unequal distribution of valued
resources such as Income and power. Impacts a persons life
changes or their access to to resources and opportunity. People
experience stratification differently based on SOCIAL POSITION.
Relatively permanent and social mobility with in them is difficult.
◉ systems of stratification
Answer: Slavery: ownership of human beings
caste: religious social hierarchy
estate: ascribed status and land ownership
class: social ranking based on one's relation to the economy
CHANGE 2ND EDITION BARKAN TESTED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ social policy questions
Answer: how is success defined?
what are the costs of success?
who should the polices help?
◉ Social Policy
Answer: refers to form strategies used to address social problems.
◉ conservative
Answer: seek to limit the scope of societal change. Focus on
individual not social failure
◉ liberal
Answer: favors more sweeping change in society. Emphasize
organized social reform
◉ radical
Answer: argues for wholesale social change to solve a social
problem. Can be ultra liberal or ultra organized.
, ◉ policy strategies
Answer: along a continuum of "left" to "right" politics
◉ social and cultural strategies
Answer: debates involving moral judgement about how people
should live
◉ economic strategies
Answer: debates about how a society should distribute its
material resources
◉ social stratification
Answer: a social system which hierarchically ranks categories of
people. Ranking is based on the unequal distribution of valued
resources such as Income and power. Impacts a persons life
changes or their access to to resources and opportunity. People
experience stratification differently based on SOCIAL POSITION.
Relatively permanent and social mobility with in them is difficult.
◉ systems of stratification
Answer: Slavery: ownership of human beings
caste: religious social hierarchy
estate: ascribed status and land ownership
class: social ranking based on one's relation to the economy
