Questão 1
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What is absolute poverty?
Questão 2
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One in three children in Scotland live in poverty.
Questão 3
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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
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It accounts for different variations of 'healthy'
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Good for comparing globally
Questão 4
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People who run homeless shelters may want to define poverty because they want to help people who are most desperate
Questão 5
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What are the weaknesses of using absolute poverty as a definition? (three correct)
Questão 6
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Absolute poverty is often associated with people in the developing world
Questão 7
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Rowntree measured relative poverty
Questão 8
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What did Rowntree's budget standard include? (three correct)
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Food
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Make up
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Rent
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TV
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Phones
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Clothing
Questão 9
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By 1950, Rowntree said poverty was a major problem
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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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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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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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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
Questão 14
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Gordon and Townsend used a budget standards approach and they worked out an LCA
Questão 15
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LCA stands for Low Cost but Acceptable
Questão 16
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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
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Information
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Alcohol
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Food
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Education
Questão 17
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What is relative poverty?
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When people cannot afford a living standard experienced by most of society
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When people cannot afford the basic things necessary for a healthy life
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When people themselves think they are poor
Questão 18
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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
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More relevant to societies with a good welfare state where absolute poverty has largely been removed
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Looks at social aspects because it accounts for people not being able to fully participate in society
Questão 19
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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
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Useful when comparing globally
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Less useful when comparing globally as normal living standards vary
Questão 20
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Mack and Lansely used a deprivation index to measure relative poverty in 1979
Questão 21
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Which of these are examples on Townsend's deprivation index?
Questão 22
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A weakness of Townsend's deprivation index is that items may have been lacked by choice.
Questão 23
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Mack and Lansley used a consensus approach for their deprivation index
Questão 24
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How many people did Mack and Lansley find were in poverty?
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3 million
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800,000
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7.5 million
Questão 25
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How do the government measure poverty?
Questão 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.
Questão 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
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Accounts for people who have a disability and their extra costs of living
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Useful for governments when setting benefits because it is an income level
Questão 28
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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
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Doesn't account for the extra costs of having a disability
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Not useful for setting benefits
Questão 29
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Subjective poverty is whether sociologists think a person is poor based on a deprivation index
Questão 30
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What is the strength of subjective poverty?
Questão 31
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How is subjective poverty measured?
Questão 32
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Define social exclusion
Questão 33
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What are examples of social exclusion in rural areas?
Questão 34
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What are some examples of social exclusion in urban areas?
Questão 35
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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
Questão 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
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An income level so easy for governments to use
Questão 37
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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
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Ownership of assets e.g property and savings. These assets have value, but are extra to day to day living costs
Questão 38
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A problem with measuring wealth is whether to include pensions, as they cannot be sold on to anyone else
Questão 39
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Define marketable wealth.
Questão 40
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Which of the following is the definition of non-marketable wealth?
Questão 41
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What is productive wealth?
Questão 42
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Define consumption wealth
Questão 43
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Inheritance Tax is calculated by the Office of National Statistics to produce estimates about wealth
Questão 44
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The wealth and assets survey is produced by Office for National Statistics - a survey on household interviews across GB
Questão 45
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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
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When people say things to make them look good
Questão 46
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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
Questão 47
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What is the definition of income?
Questão 48
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What is earned income?
Questão 49
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Define unearned income
Questão 50
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How is income measured?
Questão 51
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How can people hide the income they earn?
Questão 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
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Direct tax - taken from wages, the more you earn, the more tax you pay
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Capital gains tax - reduce profits from selling a property if you own more than one
Questão 53
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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
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Capital gains tax - Reduce profits from selling a property if the person owns more than one
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Direct tax - taken straight from wages, the more you earn the more you pay in tax
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Cash benefits - given by the state to supplement low incomes e.g working tax credits
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Benefits in kind - provided by state, freely available e.g state education
Questão 54
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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
Questão 55
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What percentage of lone parents live in relative poverty?
Questão 56
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Why are lone parents vulnerable to poverty?
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Higher than average levels of unemployment
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They can rely on more than one income
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Working in high paid jobs
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If working, more likely to be working part-time
Questão 57
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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.
Questão 58
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What percentage of lone parents are unemployed?
Questão 59
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Why might large families be in poverty?
Questão 60
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Which of the following is the statistics from the Rowntree foundation about poverty and gender?
Questão 61
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Feminists say that women are more likely than men to be in hidden poverty
Questão 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
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Low-pay, low skill jobs which are usually part-time
Questão 63
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How many children in the UK live in poverty?
Questão 64
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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
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Living in large families - Higher rates of unemployment due to unaffordable childcare costs, and having to buy more food, uniforms etc
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Not working themselves - families rely on only one or two incomes
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Having a disability - Costs an additional £99 per week to bring up a disabled child
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Households with parents in low paid jobs - Given less training, therefore less progression, keeping them trapped in poverty
Questão 65
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How many pensioners live in poverty?
Questão 66
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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
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Women on average, live longer than men so their retirement savings run out and they have less savings than men in the first place
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Higher than average levels of unemployment
Questão 67
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Why might the elderly have lower income levels?
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Welfare benefits they receive are inadequate
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If they didn't save up enough for a private pension
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Ageism - employers think they're not capable or too old/ill
Questão 68
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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
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£200 a week
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£250 a week
Questão 69
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What year was the disability act introduced?
Questão 70
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What is the ethnic group with the highest rate of poverty?
Questão 71
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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
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Unemployment rates 3x higher for them than other ethnicities
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Live 20% longer than other ethnicities
Questão 72
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Horizontal segregation is when different ethnic groups are concentrated in different employment sectors (tend to be low skilled, low paid)
Questão 73
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Black African men are concentrated in manufacturing industry
Questão 74
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Chinese people are concentrated in the catering industry
Questão 75
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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
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Bangladeshis
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Indians
Questão 76
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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?
Questão 77
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What percentage of ethnic minority groups live in deprived areas?
Questão 78
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Which ethnic minority group experience the most discrimination in the workplace?
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Muslims
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Black Africans
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Bangladeshis
Questão 79
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Which of these is the definition of institutional racism?
Questão 80
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What is an example of institutional racism?
Questão 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
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Workers who are used when needed, but disposed of when their labour is no longer needed
Questão 82
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Who do cultural explanations blame for poverty?
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Society
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Government
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Individual
Questão 83
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Which sociologist has the Culture of Poverty theory?
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Flaherty
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Oscar Lewis
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Murray
Questão 84
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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
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People in poverty develop a culture with norms and values which prevent them escaping poverty e.g fatalistic
Questão 85
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What are the components of the culture of poverty?
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Individual characteristics, work characteristics and wealth characteristics
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Individual characteristics, family characteristics and community characteristics
Questão 86
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Who are the two New Right theorists?
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Murray and Marsland
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Connell and Flaherty
Questão 87
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Culture of dependency is a Marxist idea
Questão 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
Questão 89
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Who offered an alternative view to Murray's underclass?
Questão 90
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Define cycle of poverty
Questão 91
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According to Lewis, what causes a culture of poverty to develop?
Questão 92
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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
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The state do not provide enough help for the poor, they need more universal benefits and help with seeking jobs
Questão 93
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Which types of benefits do the New Right prefer?
Questão 94
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What are the three elements to the culture of the underclass?
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Patriarchy, illegitimacy and poor housing
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Crime, illegitimacy and unemployment
Questão 95
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What do structural theorists blame for the cause of poverty?
Questão 96
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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
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An economic system which means private ownership of means of production, heavily profit driven
Questão 97
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What do Weberian theories focus on for the existence of poverty?
Questão 98
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You have a high market position if your skills are...
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widely available
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rare and in demand
Questão 99
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Feminists say poverty is...
Questão 100
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What is Marxist theory known as?
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A structural, consensus theory
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A cultural, consensus theory
Questão 101
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What is the functionalist theory known as?
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A cultural, conflict theory
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A structural, consensus theory
Questão 102
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The feminist theory is a conflict theory
Questão 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
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Saves gov. money as there is no eligibility test
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Reduces culture of dependency
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Prevents poverty trap - people get them without paying so working won't make them poorer
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Save the state money as they are given to people who need it
Questão 104
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What are the disadvantages of universal benefits?
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Stigma attached
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Have to test for eligibility
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Marxists say it tricks workers into thinking society is fair
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New Right say it creates a culture of dependency
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Expensive because people may claim without needing them so taxes rise
Questão 105
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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
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Assessed in relation to income
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Too expensive
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No stigma attached
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Reduces culture of dependency
Questão 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
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Assessed in relation to income
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Creates poverty trap as they are taken away if you start working
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Can be expensive - have to test eligibility
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Create a culture of dependency
Questão 107
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What time period was the labour, conservative, then labour government, after ww2?
Questão 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
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Patriarchy, capitalism, universal benefits, poor housing and low pay
Questão 109
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What is the definition of idleness?
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Ignorance to work
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Unemployment
Questão 110
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What was the ww2 government influenced by?
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Social democratic
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New Right
Questão 111
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What year was the NHS established?
Questão 112
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Who was Thatcher influenced by in 199-1997?
Questão 113
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Poverty fell under the conservatives? (Thatcher)