Deck 8: Urban Social Problems

Question 1

Which of the following terms is used to describe problems that are unwanted conditions outside of a person's control, but that also have negative consequences on their life chances?

A) Personal issues
B) Social problems
C) Spatial dilemmas
D) Contextual regrets

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which demographic group is most likely to experience homelessness?

A) Men
B) Women
C) Children
D) Veterans

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Based on statistics on crime from between 2012 and 2015, which of the following describe crime rates by race?

A) Blacks are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of crime.
B) Blacks are more likely to be victims of crime and whites are more likely to be perpetrators of crime.
C) Whites are more likely to be victims of crime and blacks are more likely to be perpetrators of crime.
D) Whites are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of crime.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the five types of segregation patterns that Massey and Denton identified as contributing towards hypersegregation?

A) Concentration
B) Isolation
C) Neighboring
D) Unevenness

Question 5

Taeubers' (1965) study of segregation in US cities found that what percent of cities in their sample were highlight segregated for African Americans, with a segregation index of more than 0.50?

A) 30% of cities in the sample
B) 55% of cities in the sample
C) 82% of cities in the sample
D) 100% of cities in the sample

Question 6

Lefebvre argued that the second circuit of capital is less likely to go through boom-and-bust cycles than other areas of investing.

Question 7

What statement accurately describes patterns of segregation in the suburbs?

A) Suburbs are not as segregated as central cities.
B) Today's suburbs are more racially diverse than before.
C) Blacks and Hispanics with incomes above $75,000 a year are more likely to live in a higher poverty neighborhood than whites who earn less than $40,000 a year.
D) Answers B and C
E) All of the above

Question 8

The probability that a person will suffer from a chronic or acute health problem depends on where they live.

Question 9

Which of the following is true of the "social determinants" model of public health?

A) County and state health departments are moving towards this model as a way of better addressing public health issues.
B) According to this approach variables such as income, education, unemployment, food insecurity, early childhood development, and adequate housing work together to create unwanted health outcomes.
C) Answers A and B
D) None of the above

Question 10

What did Sharkey et al (2017) find was associated with the 9% reduction in crime that they observed in their research?

A) An increase in police presence
B) An increase in community organizations targeting violence
C) An increase in nighttime lighting of sidewalks and public spaces
D) An increase of segregation by isolation

Question 11

What are social problems?

Question 12

In what ways has the city been synonymous with social problems throughout the history of urban social life? Are social problems are unique to urban life? If so, how so? If not, why not?

Question 13

Are social problems evenly distributed across space in the metropolitan region? Why or why not?

Question 14

What causes racial residential segregation?

Question 15

How do social problems such as poverty, crime, and public health, relate to segregation?