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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
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functionalist
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rules upon which society is based break down, and this disorganization is manifested in three major ways.
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institution building
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The __________ perspective is based on the belief that social problems arise out of major contradictions in the way societies are organized;
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conflict
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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.
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interactionist
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A person who is labeled a drug addict may adopt elements of what is popularly viewed as a drug addict's lifestyle:
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secondary deviance
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Whenever we encounter statistics about what people in a society believe about a problem or how different groups within a population behave,
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survey
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In a classic study of how people become drug users, sociologist Howard Becker concluded that the experience of using marijuana is
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a social construction
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In a/an __________, the investigator attempts to systematically vary the conditions that are of interest in order to determine their effects.
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experiment
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in an experiment, the subjects who receive the treatment are known as the __________ group
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experimental
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Phillip Zimbardo and his colleagues created a simulated __________ in the basement of a building at Stanford University.
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prision
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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:
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actually mask important changes in social problems and divert public attention from problems that can be addressed through social policy.
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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.
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natural history
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__________ are formal procedures designed to remedy a social problem.
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Social policies
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In the text's discussion of social policy, it is pointed out that
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liberals and socialists reject the dominance of the market in social-welfare institutions.
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The text states that social problems
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are often closely interrelated
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