Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

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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. Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that______________?

   A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
   B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
   C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
   D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Margaret Mead suggested that______________?

   A. adolescence and gender roles varied between societies and so were culturally determined
   B. gender roles in three New Guinea societies were identical and so must be biologically determined
   C. adolescence in the USA is a time of relative calm compared to the experience in Japan and Europe
   D. anthropological fieldwork can be problematic because the researcher’s values affect the way they interpret their observations

8. New-style terrorism differs from the old-style in that______________?

   A. it is less predictable than previous manifestations
   B. it has ambitions that are global in scope
   C. it is rooted in religious ideologies
   D. it concerns local territorial disputes

9. One strength of ethnography is that______________?

   A. the influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
   B. it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
   C. it is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
   D. it can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities

10. Lombroso claimed that______________?

    A. criminals were socialized into an underworld of crime
    B. no act is intrinsically deviant
    C. biological failings drove some people into crime
    D. women were less likely to be arrested than men