A. the critical deconstruction of poverty by feminist theorists
B. women’s increased chances of being in poverty due to low pay and greater welfare dependency
C. the way in which managing a budget and avoiding poverty tends to be a women’s responsibility within the home
D. the disproportionate number of female sociologists who do research on poverty
Related Mcqs:
- 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 term hegemony refers to_____________?
A. the tendency for the working class not to realize their own interests
B. a dominant ideology that legitimates economic political
C. a form of dual consciousness based on ideology and everyday experiences
D. a mode of payment given for outstanding topiary - Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?
A. a theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
B. the precise scientific study of observable phenomena
C. a theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
D. an unscientific set of laws about social progress - Absolute poverty refers to a set standard which is consistent over time and______________?
A. in a county
B. between countries
C. for a decade
D. None of these - Global economic inequality refers primarily to_____________?
A. systematic differences in wealth and income between global firms
B. systematic differences in wealth and income between countries
C. systematic differences in wealth and income within countries
D. systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries - What term is used to describe the way that the varied aspects of an individual’s identity-such as class ethnicity gender disability and location -interact to produce complex patterns of inequality poverty and discrimination ?
A. intersectionality
B. ascription
C. mobility
D. meritocracy - Socialization is a life process generally divided into two parts primary and secondary socialization Primary refers to_____________?
A. Socialization at primary school level
B. Socialization at home
C. Socialization in early life, as a child
D. None of these - Ethnic identity refers to_____________?
A. the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census
B. a felt sense of group membership on the basis of religion language or history
C. the imposition of a racial label on a minority by a powerful majority
D. the fragmented and pluralistic nature of ethnicity - The application of rules and regulations in an unimaginative and mechanical fashion refers to_____________?
A. the iron law of oligarchy
B. Parkinson’s law
C. the peter principle
D. trained incapacity - Bias in research practice refers to_____________?
A. the investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B. the research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C. the data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D. interpretations being applied to the results
