Soci Chapt 10 POVERTY

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One strategy that might allow more women to join the workforce, as suggested by Al Gore and other leftists, would be to:
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provide universal day care.
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Which nation has one of the highest poverty rates in the advanced world?
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U S
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Theorists who believe poverty is relational measure poverty by determining:
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the median income in a given location, and anything under that number is considered poverty.
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According to the culture of poverty theory, what happens once survival adaptations are in place?
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They hold poor people back
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If you were unemployed and won a modest amount of money in the lottery (say, $20,000 a year), research suggests that:
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Your chance of getting a job is greatly increased.
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Your text mentions outcomes that people believe stem from receiving welfare. Which of the following is NOT a result mentioned in your text?
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Feelings of incompetence
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A study of Cherokee children whose income greatly increased due to legalized gambling on reservations found that:
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their behavior problems decreased
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Gated communities are examples of which factor that is mixing with wealth inequality to increase the gap between the rich and the poor?
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economic segregation
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When the official poverty line was first set, food made up the largest percentage of household budgets. In today's society, what now makes up the largest percentage?
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housing
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Mollie Orshansky used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recommendations for the minimum amount of healthy food, estimated the cost for a variety of family types, and multiplied this figure by a factor of three to measure:
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the official poverty line
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Your text defines poverty as a condition of deprivation due to:
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economic circumstances
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A lot of people who are eligible for food stamps in the United States don't apply for them. Why?
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They can't get to the government offices administering food stamps during operating hours.
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According to your text, what drives American poverty rates?
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lopsided economic rewards
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An economist surveying lottery winners found that people who had zero earnings and who were not in the workforce before winning:
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increased their commitment to work.
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What population was Oscar Lewis studying when he coined the term "culture of poverty"?
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Mexicans
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Some policy experts believe that welfare creates more problems than it solves because it discourages people from finding work. This is also known as:
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a perverse incentive
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James Rosenbaum (2000) found that the people most likely to benefit from being moved from low-income, ghetto neighborhoods were the:
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children
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Which program shifted more of the responsibility of running welfare programs onto individual states and mandated time limits for the number of months a person can receive aid?
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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
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People who are born into poverty and ultimately raise their own children in poverty learn "how" to live in poverty. They learn the norms and values associated with that particular way of life. This is known as Oscar Lewis's:
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Culture of Poverty
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What term do economists use to describe the relative value of present consumption versus future savings?
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discount rate
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According to the underclass thesis, the poor are:
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deviant and dangerous to mainstream society.
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William Julius Wilson believed that there were factors other than welfare that led to a lack of inner-city job opportunities. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors?
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industrialization
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The definition of relative poverty takes into account which important factor when determining poverty based on a percentage of median income?
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location
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Which program shifted more of the responsibility of running welfare programs onto individual states and mandated time limits for the number of months a person can receive aid?
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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
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According to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, what is the root cause of African Americans' economic problems?
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the matrifocal family
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One of the explanations of continued racism in America is:
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we colonized others within the country itself, as with slavery.
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Which term describes the measurement of poverty where a household's income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members?
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absolute poverty
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The Moving to Opportunity study didn't answer the poverty question because which factor remained constant?
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income
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Your text lists several explanations for why the United States has the highest inequality of all English-speaking nations. Which of the following is NOT an explanation your text cites?
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the system of inequality in the United States originated in Europe
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Income-based measurements are deceptive because they hide the real influence of:
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wealth
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When the official poverty line was first set, food made up the largest percentage of household budgets. In today's society, what now makes up the largest percentage?
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housing
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What method is usually used to evaluate poverty?
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objective analyses of statistics and economics
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One of the ways theorists who believe poverty is relational measure poverty by:
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determining the median income in a given location and anything under this number is considered poverty.
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Status consumption has been discussed earlier in the text in the chapter on stratification (Chapter 7). How does this affect poverty?
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It, along with the media, gives us goals that are unreachable for most of us, thus plummeting us into debt.