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Soc 100 ch. 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture of poverty | The argument that poor people adopt certain practices that differ from those of middle-class, "mainstream" society in order to adapt and survive in difficult economic circumstances. |
| Underclass | The idea that the poor are not only different from mainstream society in their inability to take advantage of what mainstream has to offer but also are increasingly deviant and even dangerous. |
| Perverse incentives | Reward structures that lead to suboptimal outcomes by stimulating counter-productive behavior. |
| Absolute poverty | The point at which a household's income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members. |
| Relative poverty | A measurement of poverty based on a percentage of the median income in a given location. |
| Poverty | a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances that is severe enough that the individual is this condition cannot live with dignity in his or her society |
| Lyndon Johnson | programs for education, job training and placement, housing as a part of its “war on poverty” Within just a few years, many of these programs, and he whole ideology behind them, |
| Recession | a period of economic decline lasting half a year or more |
| The culture of poverty theory | poor people adopt certain practices, which differ from those of middle-class, “mainstream” society, in order to adapt and survive in difficult economic circumstances |
| William Julius Wilson | turned the focus from welfare to factors such as deindustrialization, globalization, suburbanization, and discrimination as causes of urban poverty. |
| How has the timing of the transition to a free-market economy been used as one of several explanations for the great differences between the United States and other advanced democracies in terms of inequality and poverty? | Institutions that could better protect the weak or disadvantaged were more fully developed in countries that transitioned to a free-market economy later than the United States did. |
| Which president declared a “War on Poverty” and oversaw the creation of a wide range of programs intended to combat the causes, not just the consequences, of poverty? | Lyndon Johnson |
| In the United States, the poverty line is established by ________ | estimating food costs based on meeting minimum nutritional requirements and assuming that different types of families spend about one-third of their budget on food. |
| Poverty can best be defined as ________ | a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances that is severe enough that the individual in this condition cannot live in society with dignity. |
| Which of the following most accurately represents the relationship between poverty and child outcomes, according to two of the three theories reviewed in your text? | poverty, conditions in the home, parental behavior, child outcomes |
| Apart from the timing of the transition to free-market capitalism, what is NOT another factor about the United States that your text cites as potentially responsible for the comparatively high levels of inequality? | the geographic size |
| According to the bell curve thesis, what has a key impact on children’s outcomes? | genes |
| In his interview with the author, David Grusky explains why he thinks the notion of perverse incentives is old-fashioned. Which of the following is an example of a perverse incentive? | Based solely on grades with no review of the types of classes students have taken. to increase their chances of being accepted into the program, some students take easier classes the semester before applying in order to boost their grade point average. |
| The Gautreaux Assisted Living Program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity study provided opportunities to explore ________ | the effects on families of living in a low-poverty versus a high-poverty neighborhood. |
| Why did the negative income tax experiment lead to more women leaving their marriages? | The guaranteed payment that people received through the program meant that many women were no longer financially dependent on a man. |
| The ________ theory argues that poor people adopt certain practices that differ from those of middle-class or “mainstream” society in order to adapt and survive in difficult economic circumstances. | culture of poverty |
| Some theorists argue that there can never be an absolute definition of poverty because ________ | poverty is always relational—a person is not poor in isolation but rather in comparison to someone else. |
| The Moving to Opportunity study found that children who moved from high-poverty to low-poverty neighborhoods experienced ________ outcomes on several indicators. Among families, there was ________ change in welfare use. | better; minimal |
| Which of the following is a criticism of how the poverty line is calculated in the United States? | The formula does not reflect that housing now takes up a much larger portion of family budgets. |
| The level of income inequality in the United States is ________ | higher than that of all other advanced democracies. |
| In What Money Can’t Buy, sociologist Susan Mayer challenged the common assumption that ________ | poverty directly causes poor health, behavioral problems, and many other problems for children. |
| According to the text, what question has been at the core of the debate about poverty in America for the last 40 to 50 years? | Does poverty cause social problems (such as crime, poor educational outcomes, and divorce), or is poverty the result of such problems? |
| The main difference between the “no effect” paradigm and the material deprivation and parenting stress models of how poverty negatively affects children is that ________ | supporters of the “no effect” paradigm hold out little hope that much can be done to improve outcomes for poor children. |
| The ________, as the label was conceived by journalist Ken Auletta, refers to people who not only are unable to take advantage of what society has to offer but are also increasingly deviant and even dangerous to the rest of society. | underclass |
| According to William Julius Wilson, how do factors such as deindustrialization, globalization, suburbanization, and discrimination contribute to high rates of welfare-dependent, single-mother families? | Such factors have contributed to a net shrinkage of the pool of employed, unincarcerated men, thus greatly limiting women’s opportunity to find a stable life partner. |
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