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In a hospital, the nurse's role requires specific knowledge and behaviors that involve treatment of the patient's immediate needs and administration of care according to the doctor's orders
functionalist
rules upon which society is based break down, and this disorganization is manifested in three major ways.
institution building
The __________ perspective is based on the belief that social problems arise out of major contradictions in the way societies are organized;
conflict
The __________ approach focuses on the ways in which people actually take on the values of the group of which they are members, exploring how different groups define situations.
interactionist
A person who is labeled a drug addict may adopt elements of what is popularly viewed as a drug addict's lifestyle:
secondary deviance
Whenever we encounter statistics about what people in a society believe about a problem or how different groups within a population behave,
survey
In a classic study of how people become drug users, sociologist Howard Becker concluded that the experience of using marijuana is
a social construction
In a/an __________, the investigator attempts to systematically vary the conditions that are of interest in order to determine their effects.
experiment
in an experiment, the subjects who receive the treatment are known as the __________ group
experimental
Phillip Zimbardo and his colleagues created a simulated __________ in the basement of a building at Stanford University.
prision
Sociologist Barry Glassner argues that the media's passion for sensational stories about crime and violence and the public's ever-growing appetite for sensational coverage of violence:
actually mask important changes in social problems and divert public attention from problems that can be addressed through social policy.
Early in this century, sociologists recognized that social problems often seemed to develop in a series of phases or stages. They called the study of this process the __________ approach.
natural history
__________ are formal procedures designed to remedy a social problem.
Social policies
In the text's discussion of social policy, it is pointed out that
liberals and socialists reject the dominance of the market in social-welfare institutions.
The text states that social problems
are often closely interrelated