Sociology - poverty quiz

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A2 level Sociology (Poverty) Quiz am Sociology - poverty quiz, erstellt von eharveyhudl am 21/01/2015.
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What is absolute poverty?
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  • Being poor in comparison to others in society
  • Being unable to afford things that are essential to live a healthy life

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One in three children in Scotland live in poverty.
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  • True
  • False

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What are the strengths of using absolute poverty as a definition? (two correct)
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  • Matches most people's understanding
  • It accounts for different variations of 'healthy'
  • Good for comparing globally

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People who run homeless shelters may want to define poverty because they want to help people who are most desperate
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  • True
  • False

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What are the weaknesses of using absolute poverty as a definition? (three correct)
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  • Doesn't account for variations of healthy
  • Difficult to measure
  • Less relevant to countries with a good welfare state
  • Ignores social aspects

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Absolute poverty is often associated with people in the developing world
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  • True
  • False

Frage 7

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Rowntree measured relative poverty
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  • True
  • False

Frage 8

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What did Rowntree's budget standard include? (three correct)
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  • Food
  • Make up
  • Rent
  • TV
  • Phones
  • Clothing

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By 1950, Rowntree said poverty was a major problem
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  • True
  • False

Frage 10

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Secondary poverty is not having enough money to live a healthy life (even if all money is spent wisely)
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  • True
  • False

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Secondary poverty is having enough money to live a healthy lifestyle but not doing so because money isn't spent on necessities e.g buying alcohol instead of fruit
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  • True
  • False

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A problem with Rowntree's research is that it asks experts, so ignores what poor people think is important for a healthy life
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  • True
  • False

Frage 13

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Rowntree's research includes things that people need to be able to afford to get out of poverty e.g afford transport to get to work
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  • True
  • False

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Gordon and Townsend used a budget standards approach and they worked out an LCA
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  • True
  • False

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LCA stands for Low Cost but Acceptable
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  • True
  • False

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Gordon and Townsend measured absolute poverty by looking at 7 basic needs. Which of the following were included?
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  • Shoes
  • Information
  • Alcohol
  • Food
  • Education

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What is relative poverty?
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  • When people cannot afford a living standard experienced by most of society
  • When people cannot afford the basic things necessary for a healthy life
  • When people themselves think they are poor

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What are the strengths of using a relative definition of poverty?
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  • Useful when comparing globally as normal living standards don't vary much
  • More relevant to societies with a good welfare state where absolute poverty has largely been removed
  • Looks at social aspects because it accounts for people not being able to fully participate in society

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What are the weaknesses of using relative poverty as a definition?
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  • Over-estimates levels of poverty by comparing people to the average, as living standards in the UK are high
  • Useful when comparing globally
  • Less useful when comparing globally as normal living standards vary

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Mack and Lansely used a deprivation index to measure relative poverty in 1979
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  • True
  • False

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Which of these are examples on Townsend's deprivation index?
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  • Never had a holiday
  • Not having a cooked breakfast most days of the week
  • Children - not having a party on their last birthday

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A weakness of Townsend's deprivation index is that items may have been lacked by choice.
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  • True
  • False

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Mack and Lansley used a consensus approach for their deprivation index
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  • True
  • False

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How many people did Mack and Lansley find were in poverty?
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  • 3 million
  • 800,000
  • 7.5 million

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How do the government measure poverty?
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  • LCA (Low cost but acceptable)
  • HBAI (Households below average income)

Frage 26

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With the government measurement of poverty, households with less than 60% of the median British income are in relative poverty.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 27

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What are the strengths of HBAI measurement of relative poverty?
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  • Allows European poverty rates to be compared
  • Accounts for people who have a disability and their extra costs of living
  • Useful for governments when setting benefits because it is an income level

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What are the weaknesses of the HBAI measurements of poverty?
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  • HBAI doesn't account for how cost of living varies across the country e.g London
  • Doesn't account for the extra costs of having a disability
  • Not useful for setting benefits

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Subjective poverty is whether sociologists think a person is poor based on a deprivation index
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  • True
  • False

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What is the strength of subjective poverty?
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  • Based on an income level so useful for setting benefits
  • Looks at psychological aspects - how people feel about their own situation

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How is subjective poverty measured?
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  • Deprivation index
  • Financial satisfaction 0-10 scale

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Define social exclusion
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  • Being unable to fully participate in society due to poor housing or lack of money
  • Being unable to access life chances and opportunities experienced by most of society

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What are examples of social exclusion in rural areas?
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  • Lack of jobs
  • Lacking access to public transport
  • Lack of affordable housing

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What are some examples of social exclusion in urban areas?
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  • Lack of jobs
  • Lack of access to living in a safe environment due to high crime
  • Lack of affordable housing due to rent in cities being harder

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A weakness of social exclusion is that it is difficult for governments to use because it is not an income level
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  • True
  • False

Frage 36

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What are the strengths of using social exclusion as a definition?
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  • Highlights how being poor is more complex than lacking money e.g someone in a village is more likely to be socially excluded than someone living in a city
  • An income level so easy for governments to use

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What is the definition of wealth?
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  • Any money coming into the household on a regular basis e.g a wage
  • Ownership of assets e.g property and savings. These assets have value, but are extra to day to day living costs

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A problem with measuring wealth is whether to include pensions, as they cannot be sold on to anyone else
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  • True
  • False

Frage 39

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Define marketable wealth.
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  • Any asset you own but can also be sold e.g car
  • Something you own but can't sell e.g pension

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Which of the following is the definition of non-marketable wealth?
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  • Things the owner uses e.g car
  • Something you own but can't sell e.g pension

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What is productive wealth?
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  • When something you own provides an income e.g owning a house that you rent out
  • Any asset you own that can be sold e.g car

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Define consumption wealth
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  • Things that the owner uses e.g car
  • When an asset provides an income e.g owning a property that you rent out

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Inheritance Tax is calculated by the Office of National Statistics to produce estimates about wealth
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  • True
  • False

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The wealth and assets survey is produced by Office for National Statistics - a survey on household interviews across GB
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  • True
  • False

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What is concealment of assets?
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  • When people do not admit the amount of wealth they have, to avoid paying tax on them
  • When people say things to make them look good

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Social desirability effect is when people say something to make you look good e.g pretending you have more wealth than you do
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  • True
  • False

Frage 47

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What is the definition of income?
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  • Any money coming into the household on a regular basis e.g wage
  • Money generated from work

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What is earned income?
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  • Income before income tax is deducted
  • Income generated from actual work

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Define unearned income
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  • Income generated from work
  • Income not generated from actual work e.g rent given by tenants on a house you own

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How is income measured?
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  • Family resources survey - collects information on the income of household in UK using face to face interviews
  • Wealth and assets survey - Large survey based on household interviews in the UK

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How can people hide the income they earn?
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  • Working 'cash in hand'
  • Giving it to people they know
  • Declaring things as expenses to pay less income tax

Frage 52

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Which of the following are attempts at reducing wealth inequality?
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  • Inheritance Tax - paid on an estate when somebody dies, if it is over £325,000. To avoid wealth being passed on within families
  • Direct tax - taken from wages, the more you earn, the more tax you pay
  • Capital gains tax - reduce profits from selling a property if you own more than one

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What are examples of taxes to reduce income inequality?
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  • Indirect taxes - added to things you buy e.g VAT
  • Capital gains tax - Reduce profits from selling a property if the person owns more than one
  • Direct tax - taken straight from wages, the more you earn the more you pay in tax
  • Cash benefits - given by the state to supplement low incomes e.g working tax credits
  • Benefits in kind - provided by state, freely available e.g state education

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Tax evasion is illegal and is when people do not declare their wealth to the Inland Revenue e.g working cash in hand
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  • True
  • False

Frage 55

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What percentage of lone parents live in relative poverty?
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  • 39%
  • 61%

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Why are lone parents vulnerable to poverty?
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  • Higher than average levels of unemployment
  • They can rely on more than one income
  • Working in high paid jobs
  • If working, more likely to be working part-time

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Functionalists say that the welfare state is too generous with benefits for lone parents which discourages them from working as they can rely on benefits.
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  • True
  • False

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What percentage of lone parents are unemployed?
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  • 31%
  • 60%

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Why might large families be in poverty?
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  • Their children can work
  • Income has to spread further e.g more food
  • Childcare costs are higher

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Which of the following is the statistics from the Rowntree foundation about poverty and gender?
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  • 21% of women live in low income households compared to 19% of men
  • 19% of women live in low income households compared to 17% of men

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Feminists say that women are more likely than men to be in hidden poverty
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  • True
  • False

Frage 62

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Which of these is the definition of the primary labour market?
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  • Full-time, permanent work which tends to be dominated by men
  • Low-pay, low skill jobs which are usually part-time

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How many children in the UK live in poverty?
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  • 1 in 6
  • 1 in 10

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What are the reasons why children are prone to poverty? (research from Banardos) - 4 correct answers
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  • Living in lone parent families - Lone parents have high levels of unemployment and low out of work benefits
  • Living in large families - Higher rates of unemployment due to unaffordable childcare costs, and having to buy more food, uniforms etc
  • Not working themselves - families rely on only one or two incomes
  • Having a disability - Costs an additional £99 per week to bring up a disabled child
  • Households with parents in low paid jobs - Given less training, therefore less progression, keeping them trapped in poverty

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How many pensioners live in poverty?
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  • 1 in 3
  • 1 in 6

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What are possible reasons why female pensioners may have higher poverty rates than male pensioners?
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  • Age concern found that women receive less pension than their husbands
  • Women on average, live longer than men so their retirement savings run out and they have less savings than men in the first place
  • Higher than average levels of unemployment

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Why might the elderly have lower income levels?
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  • Welfare benefits they receive are inadequate
  • If they didn't save up enough for a private pension
  • Ageism - employers think they're not capable or too old/ill

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To live a good quality of life, how much extra would a disabled person need, on top of welfare benefits?
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  • £300 a week
  • £200 a week
  • £250 a week

Frage 69

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What year was the disability act introduced?
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  • 1884
  • 2005

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What is the ethnic group with the highest rate of poverty?
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  • Bangladeshis (70%) and Pakistanis (60%)
  • Pakistanis (60%) and Black Africans (50%)

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Why do Bangladeshis and Pakistanis have high poverty rates?
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  • Women from these ethnic groups are more likely to not want paid work thank other ethnicities
  • Unemployment rates 3x higher for them than other ethnicities
  • Live 20% longer than other ethnicities

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Horizontal segregation is when different ethnic groups are concentrated in different employment sectors (tend to be low skilled, low paid)
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  • True
  • False

Frage 73

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Black African men are concentrated in manufacturing industry
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  • True
  • False

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Chinese people are concentrated in the catering industry
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  • True
  • False

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Which is the ethnic group with the lowest rates of academic achievement, where only 49% achieve 5 or more A* to C at GCSE?
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  • Black Carribeans
  • Bangladeshis
  • Indians

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Chinese is the ethnic group with the highest rate of academic achievement, with 79% achieiving 5 or more A* to Cs at GCSE?
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  • True
  • False

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What percentage of ethnic minority groups live in deprived areas?
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  • 70%
  • 50%
  • 85%

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Which ethnic minority group experience the most discrimination in the workplace?
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  • Muslims
  • Black Africans
  • Bangladeshis

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Which of these is the definition of institutional racism?
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  • When customers and staff of an institution have been found to project racist behaviour
  • How the day to day practices of an institution have racist outcomes

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What is an example of institutional racism?
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  • Job adverts not being available in different languages
  • Ignoring a member of staff who is of an ethnic minority

Frage 81

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Define the Marxist term reserve army of labour?
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  • A group of workers who seek part-time work, due to reasons such as childcare
  • Workers who are used when needed, but disposed of when their labour is no longer needed

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Who do cultural explanations blame for poverty?
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  • Society
  • Government
  • Individual

Frage 83

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Which sociologist has the Culture of Poverty theory?
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  • Flaherty
  • Oscar Lewis
  • Murray

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What is the definition of a culture of poverty by Oscar Lewis?
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  • People in poverty are made to form a separate culture due to the way society causes them to be social exclusion
  • People in poverty develop a culture with norms and values which prevent them escaping poverty e.g fatalistic

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What are the components of the culture of poverty?
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  • Individual characteristics, work characteristics and wealth characteristics
  • Individual characteristics, family characteristics and community characteristics

Frage 86

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Who are the two New Right theorists?
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  • Murray and Marsland
  • Connell and Flaherty

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Culture of dependency is a Marxist idea
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  • True
  • False

Frage 88

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Culture of dependency is where people rely on the welfare state to provide for them, instead of getting a job
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  • True
  • False

Frage 89

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Who offered an alternative view to Murray's underclass?
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  • Lewis
  • Craine

Frage 90

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Define cycle of poverty
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  • Cycle of poverty explains why poverty persist over generations
  • Cycle of poverty explains what individuals do to cause the persistence of their poverty

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According to Lewis, what causes a culture of poverty to develop?
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  • Factors caused by the individual e.g not taking job opportunities
  • Factors beyond an individuals control e.g low pay

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According to Marsland, how does the state cause the existence of poverty?
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  • The state gives over generous welfare benefits, creating a culture of dependency
  • The state do not provide enough help for the poor, they need more universal benefits and help with seeking jobs

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Which types of benefits do the New Right prefer?
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  • Universal
  • Means tested

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What are the three elements to the culture of the underclass?
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  • Patriarchy, illegitimacy and poor housing
  • Crime, illegitimacy and unemployment

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What do structural theorists blame for the cause of poverty?
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  • Individual
  • Society

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What is the definition of capitalism?
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  • An economic system where the individual is responsible for himself, not profit driven
  • An economic system which means private ownership of means of production, heavily profit driven

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What do Weberian theories focus on for the existence of poverty?
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  • Poverty exists because it perfoms positive functions
  • Poverty is a result of the market position of individuals

Frage 98

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You have a high market position if your skills are...
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  • widely available
  • rare and in demand

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Feminists say poverty is...
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  • an inevitable outcome of a patriarchal structure
  • caused by men being dominant

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What is Marxist theory known as?
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  • A structural, consensus theory
  • A cultural, consensus theory

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What is the functionalist theory known as?
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  • A cultural, conflict theory
  • A structural, consensus theory

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The feminist theory is a conflict theory
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  • True
  • False

Frage 103

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Which of the following are advantages of universal benefits?
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  • No stigma attached as they're free
  • Saves gov. money as there is no eligibility test
  • Reduces culture of dependency
  • Prevents poverty trap - people get them without paying so working won't make them poorer
  • Save the state money as they are given to people who need it

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What are the disadvantages of universal benefits?
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  • Stigma attached
  • Have to test for eligibility
  • Marxists say it tricks workers into thinking society is fair
  • New Right say it creates a culture of dependency
  • Expensive because people may claim without needing them so taxes rise

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What are the advantages of means tested benefits?
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  • Save state money - only given to people who need them
  • Assessed in relation to income
  • Too expensive
  • No stigma attached
  • Reduces culture of dependency

Frage 106

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What are the disadvantages of means tested benefits?
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  • More stigma attached so people may not claim them
  • Assessed in relation to income
  • Creates poverty trap as they are taken away if you start working
  • Can be expensive - have to test eligibility
  • Create a culture of dependency

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What time period was the labour, conservative, then labour government, after ww2?
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  • 1940 - 1979
  • 1918 - 1940

Frage 108

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What were the 5 giant evils identified by the Beveridge report in 1942?
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  • Want, idleness, disease, squalor and ignorance
  • Patriarchy, capitalism, universal benefits, poor housing and low pay

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What is the definition of idleness?
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  • Ignorance to work
  • Unemployment

Frage 110

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What was the ww2 government influenced by?
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  • Social democratic
  • New Right

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What year was the NHS established?
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  • 1948
  • 1938

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Who was Thatcher influenced by in 199-1997?
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  • Marxist
  • New Right

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Poverty fell under the conservatives? (Thatcher)
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  • True
  • False
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