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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - The process that enables a culture to maintain equilibrium despite fluctuations in their culture is known as______________?
A. enculturation
B. ethnocentrism
C. diffusion
D. cultural integration
E. adaptation - The embourgeoisement thesis suggests that_____________?
A. capitalists are being replaced by salaried managers with bureaucratic authority
B. the affluent working class is adopting middle class values and ways of life
C. white collar occupations are being deskilled by the introduction of new technologies into the workplace
D. the class structure has fragmented and there are no longer any distinct social classes - 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 - Which one of the following is not part of Bowles and Ginits,s (1976) Marxist thesis on schooling under capitalism ?
A. head teachers often encourage working class children to be ambitious
B. the structures of school life correspond to the structures of working life
C. education is a great divider not a leveler
D. schools provide the right kind of future workers for capitalist employers - The thesis of glocalization is associated with which theorist ?
A. Ulrich Beck
B. Kenichi Ohmae
C. Roland Robertson
D. Judith Butler - Those who cannot compete have on right for higher learning and must be refused accordingly who believed in the above thesis ?
A. Auguste Comte
B. Spencer
C. Karl Max
D. None of these - The Thomas theorem states that________________?
A. nonverbal communication constitutes the majority of a message in communication
B. verbal communication is more important than touch and touch is more important than artifacts in communicating a message
C. definitions of the situation differ, and common understanding is impossible
D. if situations are defined as real they are real in their consequences
