Exam 18: Global Problems

In the year 2000, about __________ people experienced homelessness in the United States; nearly __________ of those were children.

Which of these countries has an income inequality most comparable to that of the United States?

Who are most likely to be the victims of a terrorist attack?

Which of the following is an example of a natural event, one that is usually beyond human control?

Which factor is indicative of the prevalence of wife beating in a society?

What does research suggest goes a long way toward lessening incidents of family violence?

In their study of the homeless in New York City, Ellen Baxter and Kim Hopper found that __________.

Which of these people is most likely to commit an act of violence against a child?

What did Mary Kay Gilliland discover in her ethnographic work in Croatia?

Social problems are mostly __________.

Warfare in nonindustrial societies was __________ lethal than modern warfare.

Lewis Aptekar found that street children in Cali, Colombia, were __________ than their siblings who stay at home.

Anthropological studies of corporal punishment indicate a connection between rates of corporal punishment and __________.

Cross-culturally, how does father absence impact the likelihood of juvenile delinquency and, later, physical violence?

Terrorists tend to come from __________ social status and generally have __________ education than the average person.

Physical punishment of children occurs at least sometimes in over __________ percent of the world's societies.

Which of these do you expect would occur less often in egalitarian societies than in stratified ones?

Which contributed to the famine in the African Sahel in 1974?

How does homelessness in the United States compare to homelessness in other parts of the world?

Many researchers focus their studies on variation in the frequencies of specific behaviors to avoid having to decide what is or is not __________.