A. the personal experience of poverty is not the concern of sociologists
B. there is an arbitrary nature to how items are selected for a deprivation index
C. it may be choice not poverty that means some people do not qualify for some of the items on a deprivation index
D. the subjective nature of such indices means it is difficult to make comparisons between different studies and time periods
Related Mcqs:
- The theory of relative deprivation is an example of what ______________?
A. macro sociological theory
B. feminist sociological theory
C. micro sociological theory
D. middle-range sociological theory - Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. psychoanalytic perspective - The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans contains an implicit critique of Blacks Hispanics and others for failing to succeed as well as the model minority has Which sociological perspective would view this as yet another instance of blaming the victim ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical approach - 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 - When a number of researchers use the same operational definition to measure a variable and achieve the same results the measure is said to be_______________?
A. valid
B. reliable
C. factual
D. internally consistent
E. instrumental - In many contemporary conflict’s attempts are made to protect soldiers often at the expense of civilian lives in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities How are such conflicts described ?
A. degenerate wars
B. genocides
C. illegal wars
D. risk-transfer wars - Social Control theory attempts to explain_____________?
A. conformity
B. corporate crime
C. Psychologically-based crime
D. lower-class crime
E. white-collar crime - 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 - Ellis Lee and Peterson developed a research exploring how parents raise their children relative to their class They viewed that lower class parents were more likely to emphasize____________ in their children?
A. Creativity
B. Self-reliance
C. Conformity
D. None of these - In a society with a (n) ___________ the political and religious institutions often act in harmony and mutually reinforce each other,s powers over their relative spheres of influence ?
A. denomination
B. ecclesia
C. cult
D. sect
