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Soc Unit 2
Chapter 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| parenting stress hypothesis | low income and crappy lives turn into stress which leads to detrimental parenting practices |
| Lewis | Wrote "The Culture of Poverty" |
| The culture of poverty | poor people adopt certain practices that differ from the middle class in order to survive their economic troubles |
| negative income tax | government gave money to poverty people and wouldn't make them pay taxes until they started making a certain amount. Caused people to leave work |
| underclass | different from mainstream in their inability to take advantage of what society has to offer and also increasingly deviant and dangerous to the rest of us |
| Murray | Poor no different than us. Claims they victims and provided wrong long-term incentives. |
| Wilson | argued that welfare had little effort on the labor and marriage markets in inner cities |
| Bell curve thesis | successful parents have better genes. Few people with had genes will rise to the top |
| Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority | helped people get housing which led to better employment. did experiment on fams and randomly moved some to low and high poverty places. Kids did better teens did not |
| absolute poverty | the point at which a households income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members |
| relative poverty | the determination of poverty based on a percentage of the median income in a given location |
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