Deck 1: Social Welfare: Its Business, History, and Future

Question 1

In the context of public health and welfare services, President Franklin Roosevelt asserted that:

A) financial security, including public assistance, is a matter of charity.
B) every individual has a right to a minimum standard of living in a civilized society.
C) liberty and security are mutually exclusive in a democratic society.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

​Social welfare overlaps with sociology and psychology on a:

A) ​knowledge-base level.
B) ​functional level.
C) ​practice level.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following views asserted that the economy and society in general would best prosper if businesses and industries were permitted to do whatever they desired to make a profit?

A) Social Darwinism
B) The laissez-faire economic theory
C) ​Protestant ethic
D) ​Compassionate conservatism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

​Which of the following statements is consistent with the residual view of social welfare?

A) ​Recipients are viewed as being entitled to social services and financial help.
B) ​Social services and financial help should be provided to an individual on a short-term basis, primarily during emergencies.
C) ​It is associated with the belief that an individual's difficulties are due to causes largely beyond his or her control.
D) There is no stigma attached to receiving funds or services. In this view, when difficulties arise, causes are sought in the society, and efforts are focused on improving the social institutions within which the individual functions.

Question 5

​Aspects of the English Poor Laws that have been incorporated into our public assistance programs include all of the following except:

A) ​benefits being viewed as "charity."
B) residence requirements.
C) use of a means test.
D) ​recipients being considered entitled to aid.

Question 6

​Private social welfare agencies:

A) were the only social service agencies in the early 1900s where services were provided by professionally-trained volunteers from the upper socioeconomic groups.
B) were primarily established to meet the needs of people living in rural areas.
C) provided most of the funds and services to the needy until the 1930s due to the lack of development of public social services.

Question 7

​Which of the following is consistent with an institutional view of social welfare?

A) Social services and financial aid should be provided only when other measures or efforts have been exhausted.
B) ​Causes for client's difficulties are sought in the society.
C) Clients are to blame for their predicaments because of personal inadequacies.
D) Recipients are required to perform certain low-grade work assignments to receive financial aid.

Question 8

​The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 established three categories of relief recipients:

A) ​the insane, the poor, and the disabled.
B) ​the insane, dependent children, and the poor.
C) the able-bodied poor, the impotent poor, and dependent children.
D) ​the disabled, wives of prisoners, and the poor.

Question 9

​The _____ of social welfare advocates social interventions that contribute positively to economic development. It focuses on integrating economic and social development for the benefit of all members of society.

A) ​liberal perspective
B) conservative perspective
C) ​developmental perspective
D) ​strengths perspective

Question 10

Before 1930 social services and financial assistance for people in need were provided primarily by _____.

A) ​churches and voluntary organizations
B) ​federal and state institutions
C) ​richer European countries
D) the military

Question 11

​Each of the following is considered the business of social welfare except:

A) telling people how to live their lives.
B) ending all types of discrimination and oppression.
C) providing child-care services for parents who work outside the home.
D) rehabilitating people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs.

Question 12

​Dr. Cecil Jacobson was well known for all of the following except for:

A) defrauding patients by artificially inseminating them with his own sperm while claiming to use other donors.
B) ​​having introduced amniocentesis in the United States for diagnosing defects in unborn babies.
C) tricking his patients into believing they were pregnant when they were not.
D) developing the technology that can enable men to give birth.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true?

A) ​Technological advances foster changes in our lifestyles; these changes affect changes in our future social and financial, health, and recreational needs; and these determine what changes will be demanded in social service programs.
B) ​Changes in our future social, financial, health, and recreational needs affect technological advances to foster lifestyle changes, and these determine what changes will be demanded in social service programs.
C) ​With increasing technological breakthroughs and changes in social welfare programs, adjusting psychologically to rapid lifestyle changes has become easier.
D) ​Changes in social service programs affect technological advances that foster lifestyle changes, and these changes affect changes in our future social, financial, health, and recreational needs.

Question 14

​Psychiatry is the study of:

A) ​the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.
B) ​human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organizations, institutions, and development of human society.
C) ​mental processes and behavior of the brain.
D) ​the processes, principles, and structure of government and political institutions.

Question 15

President Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1996 and replaced it with:

A) ​Welfare Services for Single Mothers.
B) ​Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
C) ​Conditional Aid to Single Parents.
D) ​Assistance for Poor Families.

Question 16

​All of the following are considered the business of social welfare except:

A) providing recreational and leisure-time services to all age groups.
B) rehabilitating juveniles and adults who have committed criminal offenses.
C) acting as missionaries for all faiths and bringing more spirituality into people's lives.
D) fulfilling the health and legal exigencies of those in financial need.

Question 17

The political philosophy of conservatism generally advocates that:​

A) ​a moderate change in society is desirable.
B) a free-market economy needs regulation to ensure fair competition among various interests.
C) a residual approach to social welfare programs should be used.
D) ​government action should frequently be used to remedy social deficiencies and to improve human welfare.

Question 18

​Which of the following is a welfare benefit received by corporations?

A) ​Survivors insurance
B) ​Training subsidies through educational institutions
C) ​Low-cost government insurance for Oceanside homes
D) ​Reduced capital gains taxes

Question 19

According to Linda Gordon, which of the following is a reason for the large-scale stigmatization of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program in the 1950s and 1960s?

A) ​It advocated social interventions that negatively affected the economic development.
B) The harmony between economic and social institutions was disrupted as a result of AFDC program.
C) ​It was in direct opposition to the residual approach, which advocates that the government should seek to minimize its role in the provision of social welfare programs.
D) The role of women began to be redefined, and it began to be expected that women would work outside the home.

Question 20

​_____ is the study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organizations, institutions, and development of human society.

A) ​Social welfare
B) ​Sociology
C) ​Social work
D) ​Cultural anthropology

Question 21

​Blaming social welfare clients for their predicaments is consistent with the institutional view of social welfare.

Question 22

​The residual view of social welfare generally attaches a stigma to receiving services and funds.

Question 23

Children today in this country are more of an economic asset than a financial liability.

Question 24

A major push for expansion of social welfare programs came in the 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty and sought to create what he called a "Great Society."
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Question 25

Which of the following is a screening approach that involves the surgical insertion of a hollow needle through the abdominal wall and uterus of a pregnant female to obtain amniotic fluid for the determination of chromosomal abnormality?

A) ​Amniocentesis
B) ​Chorionic villus sampling
C) ​Cloning
D) ​Microcephaly

Question 26

The Protestant ethic emphasized individualism, the view that one is the master of one's own fate.

Question 27

​_____ are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to a state similar to that of an embryonic stem cell by being forced to express genes and factors characteristic of embryonic stem cells.

A) Embryonic stem cells
B) ​Basophils
C) Induced pluripotent stem cells
D) Lymphocytes

Question 28

One of the businesses of social welfare is to provide adequate housing for the homeless.

Question 29

​The technology now exists to enable men to give birth to babies.

Question 30

​In the past, social welfare has been more of a pure science than an applied science.

Question 31

Stinnet and Walters reviewed the research literature on stepparenthood and came to the conclusion that:

A) integration tends to be easier in families that have been split by death rather than by divorce.
B) adolescents have greater difficulty accepting a stepparent than do young children.
C) ​children tend to see a stepparent of the same sex as playing favorites with them.
D) female children tend more readily to accept a stepparent, particularly if the new parent is a male.

Question 32

Embryo transfer is a technique in which an egg taken from a woman's reproductive system is externally artificially impregnated with partner's sperm and then implanted in her uterus to complete the normal process of pregnancy.

Question 33

​In 1935, when the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program was enacted, it was thought best for single mothers to stay at home to raise their children.

Question 34

​Sociology is the study of human culture based on archeological, ethnographic, linguistic, social, and psychological data and methods of analysis.

Question 35

​Social welfare programs and social service organizations are sometimes referred to as social welfare institutions.

Question 36

Herbert Hoover strongly believed that only government programs should meet the needs of the unemployed.

Question 37

Identify the new family forms in the current social structure of society.

A) ​Serial or contract marriages
B) Childless couples
C) Group marriages
D) All of these are correct.
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Question 38

​The development of birth control devices has been an important factor in leading to an increase in premarital sexual relationships.

Question 39

​Associated with the institutional view of social welfare is the belief that the causes of an individual's difficulties are rooted in his or her own malfunctioning.

Question 40

Which of the following concepts is embodied in an open marriage?

A) Possession or ownership of mate
B) ​Stifling of self for the marriage
C) ​​Flexible roles in meeting financial responsibilities
D) Doing everything together with one's spouse during leisure time

Question 41

Open marriage embodies concepts such as ownership of mate and denial or stifling of self for the benefit of the marriage.

Question 42

Same-sex marriages are strictly prohibited in all the states in the United States.

Question 43

​Describe the residual and the institutional views of social welfare. Which do you believe is the better conception of social welfare, and why?

Question 44

​Describe how social work and human services are individually related to social welfare.

Question 45

How did the Great Depression of the 1930s shatter the belief of individualism and result in the Social Security Act?

Question 46

​In some states, deceiving one's spouse before marriage about the desire to have children is grounds for annulment of the marriage.

Question 47

​What are some of the technological changes that are likely to influence the future of the family? How do you believe the family will be influenced by these changes?

Question 48

​Describe the two prominent political philosophies in the United States: liberalism and conservatism. Also describe each philosophy's views about the provision of social welfare services.

Question 49

​What is the relationship between technological breakthroughs and changes in social welfare programs?

Question 50

​Describe the developmental view of social welfare. Indicate why both liberals and conservatives are apt to support this approach.

Question 51

​Would you want to be tested at an early age to obtain information as to which inherited diseases you are likely to have as you go through life? Why or why not?

Question 52

​An egg can be taken from one woman's reproductive system, externally fertilized, and then implanted in another woman's uterus.

Question 53

​It is unlikely that the family of tomorrow will be significantly affected by technological changes.

Question 54

​Explain the goal of social welfare in the United States.

Question 55

One major concern among same-sex couples is that they never get any opportunities to become parents.

Question 56

​Generally, in blended families, as soon as the members become joined as a family there is instant love for one another.

Question 57

Cloning refers to the process in which a new organism is reproduced from the nucleus of a single cell.

Question 58

What is the Tea Party movement? Do you believe it is the rebirth of social Darwinism? Explain your answer.

Question 59

​The genesis is the full set of chromosomes that carries all of the inherited traits of an organism.

Question 60

​Comarital sex refers to mate swapping and other organized extramarital relations in which both spouses agree to participate.

Question 61

List the suggestions offered by Berman and Visher and Visher to parents in blended families for increasing the chances of positive relationships between adults and children.

Question 62

​Are you supportive of, or opposed to, an expansion of stem cell research? Why?

Question 63

​Outline some of the marriage and family patterns that are causing us to redefine our notion of family, and indicate your reactions to these forms.

Question 64

​Do you believe it is desirable to clone humans? Why or why not?