Social Problems
Exam 1
1. The nations of Western Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada are able to provide generous
social welfare policies for their citizens because they __________. tax their citizens at
a higher rate than the United States
2. According to William Graham Sumner the rich are successful because ____? They are
superior
3. According to social Darwinism, disadvantaged members of society___? deserve their
fate. (not bright enough to succeed)
4. The idea of the sociological imagination was developed by which sociologist? C. Wright
Mills
