Joel Best argues that most conversations about social problems
Select one:
a. involve people who don’t know anything about the true causes of the problems.
b. focus on problems that don’t have a significant impact on society.
c. assume that problems exist as objective facts.
d. result in conflict and no resolution.
Question 2
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Joel Best argues that the one thing all social problems have in common is that
Select one:
a. they harm society in some way.
b. they harm individuals in some way.
c. people define them as troubling.
d. someone has recognized the damage they do.
Question 3
When Joel Best argues that we must remember the importance of feedback in the social problems process, he means that
Select one:
a. it is important to ask claimsmakers to explain what they are doing and why if we are to truly understand the construction process.
b. at every stage in the process, reactions to the construction can reshape the way the problem is being constructed.
c. subjects need to have a voice in how problems are constructed.
d. sometimes a construction is so un-popular that it will never make it through the entire process.
Question 4
Understanding the stages in the social problems process is helpful because it allows us to see how
Select one:
a. some parts of the process often oper-ate and reminds us to think about their relationships with one another.
b. construction moves in a linear fashion through each of the stages in a consistent order.
c. each stage is distinct and unchanged by what goes on at other stages.
d. actors at the various stages are iso-lated from one another.
Question 5
A constructionist approach encourages us to ____________ when we see social problems claims.
Select one:
a. assume that we are being manipulated
b. ask critical questions
c. focus on the opinions of subjects and social problems workers
d. turn to expert claimsmakers first
