Each student will select one question to answer. You must include the page number in the book which assisted you with your answer. Each student will comment on two of their peers responses. No two students may answer the same question.
1. It is sometimes argued that “the way in which persons define a problem influences how they proceed to solve or address.” Discuss this statement as it applies to alcoholism or substance abuse.
2. Take any major social problem and try to develop a definition of it. Try using both relative and absolute approaches. How is the definition influenced by values or cultural predispositions?
3. Discuss the statement, “social workers place insufficient emphasis on public health or radical paradigms when analyzing specific social problems.”
4. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of several alternative ways of measuring the prevalence of a specific social problem in a specific community. Is it possible to use several kinds of information in tandem?
5. Discuss how a specific social problem takes different forms (or manifestations) and has different causes in specific subsections of the population. Discuss some implication of these variation for the human services delivery system.
6. In an analytic approach to policy practice:
7. When constructing typologies of social problems,
8. Rates, incidence, and prevalence pertain to:
9. “False positives” are:
10. “Felt need” refers to:
11. To determine the geographic location of specific, social problems, one might use:
12. In programs with a high benefit-cost ratio:
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