Social Exam 3
Data on cause of death indicate that recent increases in mortality in the US:
[leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, accidents]
Data show that recent increases in mortality in the US:
[life expectancy has declined in recent years, after a long period of time where life expectancy was increasing]
Most of the immigrants who qualify to legally enter the US today qualify because they:
are asylum seekers, have student visas, or get the visa lottery
Which of the following statements about immigration to the US is NOT true?
IS TRUE: prior to 1880, there were almost no restrictions, there are different types of quotas,
Which of the following statements about changes in causes of death over time is true?
Major causes of death in 1900: viruses, bacteria, transmittable diseases Major causes of death in 2015: heart disease, cancer, liver - things that affect older population
Which of the following statements about the NRA is NOT true?
The NRA was in full support of an initiative by Smith and Weeson to make a gun that could only be fired by its owner
The incarceration rate in the US
dramatic increase since 1980, still growing but is beginning to level off/ 670 people per 100,000
In an article that focuses on Karen Franklin, who lives in California, we learn middle-age white women:
frequently get prescriptions from multiple physicians who don't communicate with each other
Life expectancy in the US in 2017 was 78.6 year. This means:
it is the average age at which a group of people would die if they experienced the age-specific death rates that existed in 2016
Which of the following statements about the world's population is true?
population has increased most in the developing countries, death is most likely in european countries
Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses serve to increase the number of people in prison for drug crimes by:
requiring people who are convicted of relatively minor drug offenses to be given very long sentences
The main reason there has been a significant increase in the number of Americans in prison during the last 30 or so years is because:
the war on drugs has resulted in many people being sentenced to prison for minor drug offenses
Pretext stops are when police:
stop a vehicle for a minor traffic violation and then attempt to gain consent to search the vehicle for drugs
Which of the following statements about recent immigration from Mexico to the US is true?
there has been a decrease in the number of immigrants going to the US
Which of the following statements about recent changes in US mortality is true?
there has been an increase in white mortality because of deaths by despair.
Which of the following statements about trends in life expectancy in the US is true?
there is a slight decrease in life expectancy especially with "deaths by despair"
Which of the following statements about the Bracero Program, which lasted from 1942 to 1965, is true?
"The Bracero Program was a massive guest worker program that allowed over four million Mexican workers to migrate and work temporarily in the United States."
Many immigrants in the US work low-skilled, low-paying jobs:
(duh) usually these are landscaping, roofing, etc jobs
Which of these concepts is central to the new household economic theory of immigration?
Immigrants seeks to provide benefit for household, not thinking about themselves
The beefed up border enforcement brought on by immigration policies in the 1980s and later:
Immigration Reform and Control Act [IRCA]
Which of the following statements about homicide in the US is NOT true?
Most people killed by guns are killed in mass shootings, not individual killings
Which of the following statements about homicides in the US is NOT true?
Most people killed by guns are killed in mass shootings, not individual killings
Which of the following statements about incarceration in Oklahoma is true?
Oklahoma residents voted to keep low-level offenders out of prison but OK overrode it. OK is one of highest in incarceration of women
If a country has a Crude Birth Rate of 39 and a Crude Death Rate of 13 then:
Rate of Natural Increase= 26 (RNI = CBR-CDR)
When police ask people who appear to be minding their own business if they or their property can be searched:
The people are not required by law to permit the police to conduct the search but frequently permit it because they are intimidated or don't know their right to refuse
Which of the following statements about concealed carry laws in true?
There is no evidence that people being able to carry a concealed gun actually prevents violence
Which of the following statements about incarceration in the US is NOT true?
These ARE TRUE: 1/3 black men go to jail, 1/6 latino men go to jail, 1/17 white men go to jail. US is highest than any other country
Which of the following is NOT a central component of the Trump administration's policy toward immigration?
What IS central: stricter border enforcement, "wall", replacing family preference system w/ merit based, ending "birth-right citizenship"
Which of the following statements about the violent crime rate in the US is NOT true?
What IS true about violent crime rate in U.S. [ vcr is down from high rates back in 1980-1990's; vcr= (# of violent crimes x 100000)/total population]
Which of the following statements about the Demographic Transition is NOT true?
demographic transition: reduction in birth and death rates
The Franklin article shows that the typical pattern of painkiller drug overdose among white middle-age women is that they:
experience a personal crisis, use prescription painkillers to soothe the pain, and then get addicted.
The New York Times article on life expectancy in the US discusses an official report recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics. This report says:
in recent years there has been a decline in US life expectancy following several decades of increasing life expectancy
Mortality due to drug overdoses, alcohol-related liver disease, and suicide is:
increasing
Which of the following is NOT an important reason why in the early stages of the Demographic Transition people had lots of children?
it was advantageous to have a lot of children because: economic reasons, children are economically productive, high infant/child mortality
Mortality due to the so-called "diseases of despair" have increased the most in:
lower/middle class white people
The article focusing on Karen Franklin showed she:
started using painkillers after an injury then became addicted
Following the elimination of the Bracero Program in 1965:
there was a major influx of illegal immigrants going into the US in hopes of working
A CBS News documentary on immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the US illegally shows that since the US has spent a lot of money on border enforcement:
there's been a lot more deaths especially in the less populated areas. Now people are becoming bolder and going through main points (in trucks) where border enforcement must move quickly