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Social Welfare 8th Edition by Ambrosino Heffernan

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SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE: AN INTRODUCTION, 8TH EDITION
AMBROSINO, et al.
TEST BANK – CHAPTER 6

Essay Questions
1. Briefly describe the four dimensions of choice included in the Gilbert and Terrell model
of social welfare policy formulation and give an example of each. [EP2.1.8a; PG 150]

2. How do economic forces, government policies, and the social structure of the agency
affect the selection of goals for an agency? Use specific examples to support your
response. [EP2.1.8a; PG 151-152]

3. Explain the historical and current relationship between the public and private social
service sectors. [EP2.1.9a; PG 151-152]

4. Explain why the conservative belief that the voluntary sector can adequately solve our
social problems is misinformed. Use specific examples to support your response.
EP2.1.9a; PG 153]

5. Describe the three types of research presented and discussed in the text and give an
example of each. [EP2.1.6a, b; PG 154-155]

6. Briefly describe three reasons why practice research is important to the social work
profession. [EP2.1.6a, b; PG 153-154]

Multiple-choice Questions
1. Which community practice model stresses confrontational approaches geared to modify
or eliminate institutional power bases that negatively affect the group?
a. social planning
b. community development
c. political and social action
d. community activism
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ANS: c PG: 149 EPAS: 2.1.3b

2. Which community practice model takes a rational approach to problem solving that
assumes well-intentioned people will be responsive to sound arguments?
a. social planning
b. community development
c. social action
d. community activism

ANS: a PG: 149-150 EPAS: 2.1.3b

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3. Which model of policy analysis focuses on existing policies as a baseline for

change?
a. process model
b. elite theory model
c. rational model
d. incremental model

ANS: d PG: 150 EPAS: 2.1.3b

4. Which model of policy analysis focuses on social welfare policy as the outcome of
government organizations such as Congress, state legislatures, the courts, and political
parties?
a. process model
b. institutional model
c. elite theory model
d. incremental model

ANS: b PG: 150 EPAS: 2.1.3b

5. Which model of policy analysis focuses on efficiency, positive outcomes, cost-benefit,

long-term results, and the common good?
a. incremental model
b. institutional model
c. rational model
d. elite theory model

ANS: c PG: 150 EPAS: 2.1.3b

6. The care for persons with disabilities and the elderly in almshouses took place at which
time in American history?
a. colonial America
b. Civil War
c. beginning of the 20th century
d. Great Depression

ANS: a PG: 152 EPAS: 2.1.9a

7. The formal entry of the federal government into the public social service arena coincided
with:
a. passage of the Social Security Act of 1935
b. the Declaration of Independence
c. beginning of WWII
d. introduction of the Great Society programs of the 1960s

ANS: a PG: 153 EPAS: 2.1.9a

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8. The type of research whose purpose is to provide reliable, valid, and relevant knowledge
for public officials, agency managers, and others to support the decision-making
processes of government is:
a. evaluative research
b. policy research
c. disciplinary research
d. causal research

ANS: b PG: 154 EPAS: 2.1.6a, b

9. The type of research that is used to assess the efficacy of a particular policy or set of
policies or to measure the impact of a particular intervention is:
a. disciplinary research
b. policy research
c. evaluative research
d. causal research

ANS: c PG: 155 EPAS: 2.1.6a, b

10. Which type of research has as its intent explanation for its own sake?
a. disciplinary research
b. policy research
c. evaluative research
d. causal research

ANS: a PG: 154 EPAS: 2.1.6a, b

11. A researcher speaking of chance as an alternate explanation of observed results is

referring to:
a. the fact that the research involved a high degree of risk for the subjects
b. the possibility that the research findings occurred by chance and not as a result of
the intervention of interest
c. the fact that the research involved a measure of risk for the researcher
d. a causal connection between the intervention and the observed outcome

ANS: b PG: 155 EPAS: 2.1.6a, b

12. Which of the following is not an example of a traditional community?

a. Amish
b. First (Native) Americans
c. Hasidic Jews
d. all are examples of a traditional community

ANS: d PG: 124-124 EPAS: 2.1.8b

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13. Which of the following social value position is also referred to as the bootstrap mentality
or the frontier mentality?
a. capitalism
b. Social Darwinism
c. patriarchy
d. individualism

ANS: d PG: 149 EPAS: 2.1.8a

14. Which of the following social value positions views the poor as “morally degenerate”?
a. Social Darwinism
b. New Puritanism
c. American ideal
d. patriarchy

ANS: a PG: 149-150 EPAS: 2.1.8a

15. Which social value position is based on the belief that power and authority are
vested in men?
a. individualism
b. democratic egalitarianism
c. patriarchy
d. Social Darwinism

ANS: c PG: 150 EPAS: 2.1.8a