Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

   A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
   B. the government should be raising benefit levels
   C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
   D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries

2. Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________?

   A. media saturation
   B. media globalization
   C. media penetration
   D. media imperialism

3. Critics of the culture of poverty thesis point out that________________?

   A. the poor simply do not want the same things that other members of society want
   B. the poor have had their access to achievement blocked by the social order
   C. the theory is too cultural and fails to take into account psychological implications
   D. not enough research has been done to come to any meaningful conclusion

4. Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?

   A. stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
   B. rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
   C. fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
   D. rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion

5. Many sociologists argue that older theories of inherited intelligence and IQ tests have been discredited What concept did Gillborn and Youdell (2001) find had replaced of IQ in many Uk schools ?

   A. skill
   B. talent
   C. capacity
   D. ability

6. Judith Butler (1999) suggested that_______________?

   A. sexual characteristics are the biological determinants of gender
   B. heterosexuality and homosexuality are essential opposing identities
   C. the tow-sex model replaced the one-sex model in the eighteenth century
   D. gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex

7. Bowlby’s maternal deprivation thesis claimed that_______________?

   A. mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
   B. children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life
   C. mothering is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
   D. deprivation is something children inherit usually through their mothers’ side

8. Conflict theorists contend that_______________?

   A. organizational goals reflect the priorities of those who occupy the top positions
   B. bureaucracies are arenas for cooperation in which the dominant social values of justice and equality take precedence
   C. factories are organized and operate independently of market pressures
   D. bureaucracies result from the centralizing tendencies of socialism and help to redistribute wealth and power

9. Mass-society theory suggests that_______________?

   A. the content of the media is determined by market forces
   B. the subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class
   C. the media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
   D. audiences make selective interpretations of media messages

10. According to Weber rationalization meant that_______________?

    A. there are no absolutes concerning social life
    B. all though would eventually lead to justifying human action
    C. early philosophers were too concerned with creating a utopian society
    D. sociologists should be primarily concerned with solving problems
    E. humans would eventually seek out the most efficient means to accomplish a particular task