A. the poor who are concentrated in isolated rural areas
B. individuals who experience occasional poverty but who move back into the “mainstream” of economic life within 12 months
C. the persistently poor who exist mainly because of a sharp climb in joblessness due to a redistribution of jobs in the inner city
D. both b and c
Related Mcqs:
- Murray though that the underclass consisted of people who______________?
A. formed an inferior race with low levels of intelligence
B. lived morally unsound lives of crime and squalor
C. were too reliant upon welfare benefits
D. all of the above - Proletariat refers to____________?
A. the capitalist
B. the working class
C. the middle man
D. None of these - The term collective consumption (Castells 1977) refers to____________?
A. the privatization of public services by the Conservative government
B. the lifestyle practice of shopping in peer groups
C. the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stamps
D. the provision of health housing and education services by the state - The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to____________?
A. the globalization of culture through new technologies
B. they way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit
C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures in society
D. they way in which industrialization had created new means of communication - Marx swa capitalism leading to____________?
A. Increasingly happy individuals
B. Increasingly unhappy individuals
C. Equality in society
D. None of these - In pre-industrial societies solidarity was maintained due to____________?
A. Religion
B. Sense of Community
C. both a & b
D. None of these - __________ refers to the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation?
A. prestige
B. esteem
C. status
D. power - 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 - According to Max Weber the ideal type refers to______________?
A. the best possible outcome available
B. a perspective emphasizing the primacy of ideas
C. a model based on certain features of a phenomenon
D. the social agenda of political idealists - 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
