SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Human needs, rights, and values.
Answer: food, water, shelter, and such intangible resources as
emotional, economic, and social support
◉ Generalist Practitioners.
Answer: social workers at the undergraduate level
◉ Culture.
Answer: customs, habits, skills, arts, values, ideology, science,
religion and political behaviors of a group of people in a particular
time period
◉ Norms.
Answer: rules of behavior-both formal and informal- and the
expectations held collectively by a culture, group, organization, or
society
◉ Life Stage.
Answer: a period of life
, ◉ Socioeconomic status (SES).
Answer: socioeconomic class, refers to a categorization of groups of
people according to a specified demographic variable, such as level
of income, level of education, or location of residence
◉ Advocate.
Answer: to speak in favor of; to support
◉ Social status.
Answer: based on familial descent, occupation prestige, and cultural
standing
◉ Social class.
Answer: based on economic background
◉ Marginal employment.
Answer: the circumstance in which the formal employment of adults
(or groups of adults within families) fails to generate the earnings
needed to afford a generally acceptable standard of living, either
because they work too few hours or because wages are too low
◉ Gender identity.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Human needs, rights, and values.
Answer: food, water, shelter, and such intangible resources as
emotional, economic, and social support
◉ Generalist Practitioners.
Answer: social workers at the undergraduate level
◉ Culture.
Answer: customs, habits, skills, arts, values, ideology, science,
religion and political behaviors of a group of people in a particular
time period
◉ Norms.
Answer: rules of behavior-both formal and informal- and the
expectations held collectively by a culture, group, organization, or
society
◉ Life Stage.
Answer: a period of life
, ◉ Socioeconomic status (SES).
Answer: socioeconomic class, refers to a categorization of groups of
people according to a specified demographic variable, such as level
of income, level of education, or location of residence
◉ Advocate.
Answer: to speak in favor of; to support
◉ Social status.
Answer: based on familial descent, occupation prestige, and cultural
standing
◉ Social class.
Answer: based on economic background
◉ Marginal employment.
Answer: the circumstance in which the formal employment of adults
(or groups of adults within families) fails to generate the earnings
needed to afford a generally acceptable standard of living, either
because they work too few hours or because wages are too low
◉ Gender identity.
