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If a conservative political administration invests money in a border wall and larger border security force, what kind of critique are liberal policymakers most likely to make, and why? (Hint: there are three critique options from Ch. 9).

Organizations often increase the supervision of social problems workers and the rules they work under, with the goal of increasing the effectiveness of their work. This process is called:

The higher the tension in society is, the ____________ receptivity of the press, the public, and the policymakers to claims. 

Societal fault lines are MOST likely to flare into claimsmaking when:

What component of a claim invokes values and emotions and explains why something ought to be done about a troubling condition?

According to the textbook, a major complaint sociologists have about social problems in popular culture is:

Social problems workers find themselves squeezed between great _____________ and mundane ______________.

When a social problem claim attracts national attention, making it onto major news media platforms and generating policy discussions in Congress, it has achieved:

A wealthy person who supports increasing taxes to fund programs that would help poor people, and who donates to politicians pursuing tax increases on the top 1%, is a ___________.

Which term, which covers information informally passed amongst people, includes joke cycles and contemporary legends?