Sociology of Poverty Study Guide Questions

Course Introduction

The Sociology of Poverty explores the multifaceted nature and causes of poverty within various societies, emphasizing both structural and individual factors. The course examines historical and contemporary theories of poverty, the impact of social policies, and the ways in which race, gender, class, and geography intersect to shape economic disparities. Through case studies, empirical research, and socio-political analysis, students investigate the lived experiences of those affected by poverty and evaluate policy interventions aimed at alleviating socioeconomic inequality. The course encourages critical thinking about the broader social consequences of poverty and strategies for social justice and equity.

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Chapter 1: The Sociological Approach to Social Problems

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Q1) Citizens in social welfare states likely have better health outcomes than those in the United States because __________.

A) they provide more tax-funded social services for their people

B) they have no unemployment

C) they have a more competitive system for social services

D) they access social services through private enterprise, which ensures higher quality

Answer: A

Q2) An extremely dogmatic system-blame approach to social problems views individuals almost as robots controlled totally by their social environment.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

Q3) Early social pathologists assumed that social norms were universally held and viewed social problems as behaviors or social arrangements that disturb the moral order.

A)True

B)False

Answer: True

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Chapter 2 Wealth and Power: The Bias of the System

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Q1) __________,as defined in the text,is the ability to get what one wants from someone else.

Answer: Power

Q2) Critics argue that capitalism,because its objective is profit and not enhancing the human condition,promotes __________.

A) democracy

B) individual fulfillment

C) equality

D) inequality

Answer: D

Q3) The economy of the United States is purely a free enterprise system.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

Q4) Political lobbyists represent a balance of viewpoints that legislators weigh in their decision making.

A)True

B)False

Answer: False

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Chapter 3: World Population and Global Inequality

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Q1) The number of people on this planet constitutes a potential future calamity. A)True

B)False

Answer: TRUE

Q2) Which of the following is characteristic of developing nations?

A) Low rates of poverty, hunger, and misery

B) Low infant mortality rates

C) Relative powerlessness

D) Slow population growth

Answer: C

Q3) Health conditions that threaten the world's poor include which of the following?

A) Frequent consumption of red meat, leading to diabetes among adults

B) Protein deficiency in infancy, resulting in permanent brain damage

C) Overconsumption of synthetic sugars, leading to ADHD in children

D) Consumption of complex carbohydrates, leading to obesity

Answer: B

Q4) Population growth momentum since the world reached 7 billion is slowing. A)True

B)False

Answer: TRUE

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Chapter 4: Threats to the Environment

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Q1) If a pharmaceutical company decides to move all of its labs from suburban communities because of complaints,and relocates them to poorer communities where they assume people will not complain or have the political backing to force them to move,this would be an example of __________.

A) environmental racism

B) environmental destruction

C) ecological Armageddon

D) environmental inequality

Q2) The plants,animals,and microorganisms that supply people with the essentials of life make up Earth's __________.

A) biospheres

B) ecosystems

C) greenhouses

D) planned obsolescence

Q3) Some U.S.corporations are now leading the way in promoting __________ efforts thanks to "green" ideology becoming mainstream in the media.

Q4) The policy of __________ is visible when companies manufacture goods and then make changes to market new items for continued consumption.

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Chapter 5 Demographic Changes in the United States: The

Browning and Graying of Society

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Q1) Which of the following is currently the most likely place for immigrants to settle?

A) Northeast

B) Middle Atlantic

C) Midwest

D) Southwest

Q2) What is the reason African Americans make up a smaller proportion of the elderly population in the United States?

Q3) Anti-immigrant backlash most often results from immigrants __________.

A) competing for relative advantage with other minorities and poor Whites

B) being more likely than the rest of the population to own businesses

C) being widely dispersed across the population

D) generally having better paying jobs than other people.

Q4) Sometime around 2050,__________.

A) Latinos will make up about 29 percent of the U.S. population

B) African Americans will make up about 50 percent of the U.S. population

C) Minority groups will leave the United States

D) Asians will be the racial majority

Q5) Because racial minorities have a lower __________ than do Whites,they form a smaller proportion of the elderly population.

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Chapter 6 Problems of Place: Urban Suburban and Rural

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Q1) The process of White flight continues to increase class and race __________.

Q2) Residents in rural areas have __________.

A) unintentional property damage claims

B) health difficulties greater than those in metropolitan areas

C) better access to public transportation

D) more wealth than those in the suburbs

Q3) The most significant factor determining whether one will get credit in U.S.cities is one's credit rating.

A)True

B)False

Q4) How has employment changed in rural areas?

Ideal

Q5) "Redlining" refers to the practice of __________.

A) systematically refusing loans for housing in undesirable areas

B) providing loans in poor areas for the purpose of creating tax shelters

C) steering minorities away from some, mostly White communities

D) lining the lawns of new homes with only red flowers

Q6) Suburbanization has been directly subsidized by the federal government.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 7: Poverty

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Q1) Mark's parents grew up poor but saved and worked hard and experienced some upward mobility,mostly through Mark who worked his way through college and landed a good job.They are an example of the __________.

A) near poor

B) working poor

C) new poor

D) old poor

Q2) Though this is not a new phenomenon,the trend for contemporary women to be more economically vulnerable than men is known as __________.

A) the working poor

B) the severely poor

C) the feminization of poverty

D) wealthfare

Q3) The number of those who are severely poor __________.

A) is on the rise

B) is on the decline

C) has stayed the same since 1979

D) is lower in the United States than any other country

Q4) The new poor are __________ off than the old poor.

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Chapter 8: Racial and Ethnic Inequality

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Q1) According to the authors of the text,"Racial classification in the United States is based on a Black-White dichotomy." What do they mean by this?

Q2) Rising poverty rates among Latinos have led many policymakers to conclude that they have joined inner-city African Americans to form a(n)__________.

Q3) What is the difference between institutional racism in comparison to individual racism? Which do you think has a bigger impact on contemporary U.S.society? Use examples. Ideal

Q4) The idea that race no longer matters in explaining inequality or policymaking because racism has been overcome is called __________.

A) color blindness

B) individual racism

C) institutional racism

D) nativism

Q5) By 2004,U.S.schools were finally less segregated than they were in the days of Brown v.Board of Education.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 9: Gender Inequality

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Q1) Which of the following is a way that families teach children about gender?

A) Getting gender-appropriate pets

B) Giving different toys to boys than to girls

C) Segregating most family activities by gender

D) Feeding children gender-specific foods

Q2) Sexism negatively affects men as well as women.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Clerical work is a part of the __________ segment of the labor market.

Q4) Discuss the ways in which gender and power are related.

Q5) The use of "guys" to refer to groups of mixed gender people is an example of __________ language which perpetuates male dominance.

A) trivializing

B) sexualizing

C) ignoring

D) policing

Q6) The __________ social movements have been aimed at overcoming gender inequality.

Q7) Inequality for women in the workplace is affected by gender but not by race.

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A)True

B)False

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Chapter 10: Sexual Orientation

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Q1) In the United States,many still consider homosexuality __________.

A) deviant

B) a normal part of life

C) a rite of passage

D) to be nonexistent

Q2) Because homosexuality is behavior that does not conform to social expectations,it is common for homosexuals to be __________ and treated as second-class citizens.

A) stigmatized

B) normalized

C) celebrated

D) miscegenated

Q3) When two females kiss they get a different reaction than when two males kiss.The less sanctioned female kiss illustrates __________.

A) the sexual double standard

B) compulsory heterosexuality

C) bisexuality

D) homosexuality

Q4) In general,homosexual couples have __________ problems than heterosexual couples.

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Chapter 11: Disability and Ableism

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Q1) The way people with able bodies view people with disabilities and the institutionalization of these views are central concerns of the __________.

A) psychological model

B) individual approach to disability

C) social model of disability

D) ontological model

Q2) The __________ approach to disability does not define disability in medical terms,instead opting to focus on structural conditions present in the world.

A) social

B) medical

C) detrimental

D) parasocial

Q3) Discuss the differences between men and women in terms of the way their disabilities affect them.

Q4) A(n)__________,like disability,is a universal and undeniable reality.

A) stigma

B) individual approach to disability

C) social model of disability

D) ontological truth

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Chapter 12: Crime and Justice

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Q1) Fewer than 10 percent of people charged with crimes ever go to trial.This is largely due to the process of __________.

A) court appeals

B) plea bargaining

C) habeas corpus

D) due process

Q2) __________ is among the practices involved in setting bail that undermine the principle of fair treatment.

A) A strict enforcement of the Eighth Amendment, which prevents the setting of excessively high bail

B) The amount of bail set, which overlooks the accused's ability to pay

C) The fact that those who can't pay bail are set free until trial and thus are thus treated as if presumed innocent

D) The amount of bail to be posted is based on a sliding income scale

Q3) A monetary guarantee that a defendant will show up for a trial is known as __________,and it allows for a presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

Q4) Discuss the problems with the statistics provided by the Uniform Crime Reports.

Q5) The breaking of a law is the most common definition of __________.

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Chapter 13: Drugs

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Q1) __________ drugs heal traumatized parts of the body.

A) Additive

B) Restorative

C) Psychoactive

D) Political

Q2) In what ways do our current drug laws actually encourage crime?

Q3) Additive drugs can eliminate a sense of fatigue.

A)True

B)False

Q4) The program that provides a heroin substitute to addicts under medical supervision is called __________.

A) decriminalization of drugs

B) the politics of drugs

C) methadone maintenance

D) the social construction of drugs

Q5) One argument that the war on drugs may be __________ is that federal drug enforcement has waged its war almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.

Q6) Amphetamines are __________ drugs that are sometimes used by athletes.

Q7) Crimes committed to produce money for drugs are typically __________.

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Chapter 14: The Economy and Work

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Q1) __________ are substandard work environments where workers are paid less than minimum wage,are worked overtime without being paid premium rates,and are subjected to conditions that violate labor laws.

Q2) Alienation and the resultant feeling of work being meaningless is a problem theorized by __________.

A) Emile Durkheim

B) Max Weber

C) Erving Goffman

D) Karl Marx

Q3) When an economic system is based on private ownership of property and guided by the seeking of maximum profits it is classified as a __________ system.

A) capitalist

B) socialist

C) democratic socialist

D) corporatist

Q4) Describe the condition referred to as capital flight and discuss the conditions that have caused it.How does capital flight precipitate globalization?

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Chapter 15: Families

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Q1) __________ is/are associated with child abuse.

A) Parents who lack abuse in their past

B) Wealth

C) Alcohol consumption

D) Same-sex parents

Q2) Approximately __________ million Americans have been victims of intimate partner violence at some point in their lifetime.

Q3) Many of the arrangements involved in __________ family life are much the same as those that have been used by the poor all along.

A) industrial

B) modern

C) postmodern

D) premodern

Q4) In general,one can say that a "family" refers to a set of social relationships.

A)True

B)False

Q5) Identify and describe the behavioral and financial effects on children in single-parent families.How does this impact their long-term education and job prospects?

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Chapter 16: Education

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Q1) Explain how local control of education influences the quality of public schools.What would be the effects of removing local control? Do you think we should remove local control?

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Q2) When schools determine learning groups based on the results of an assessment of some kind it is known as __________ and is highly controversial.

A) tracking

B) channeling

C) differential placement

D) reference grouping

Q3) The fact that the average SAT score for high income youths was 381 points higher than for low income youths illustrates that __________.

A) class has an influence on education

B) upper-income families value education more

C) low-income students do not work as hard at school

D) upper-income students are cheating

Q4) Discuss how the financing of public education reflects the economic divide that exists in society.

Q5) What are the goals and issues involved in No Child Left Behind?

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Chapter 17: The Healthcare System

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Q1) Explain what may contribute to the disparities found in the United States with regard to AIDS.

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Q2) Josh grew up in an upper-class family with regular doctor visits and access to health resources like exercise equipment and nutritionists.He understands the things he needs to do to live a healthy lifestyle.Josh's situation illustrates __________.

A) the greater access to positive health habits the wealthy have

B) how much more Josh cares about his health than other people

C) the priority the wealthy put on healthcare

D) the importance of government intervention in healthcare

Q3) The Bismarck Model of healthcare is found in __________.

A) Belgium

B) Italy

C) Spain

D) Cuba

Q4) Discuss and offer evidence to disprove the common belief that the poor are accountable for their own health deficiencies.

Q5) The elderly take an average of __________ prescription drugs per person.

Q6) Discuss the downside of managed care.

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Chapter 18: National Security in the Twenty-First Century

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Q1) The U.S.Defense Department believes that __________.

A) future conflicts will be very similar to the conflicts of the past

B) the U.S. military has no humanitarian role to play; those things are best left to others

C) they must be actively prepared to combat cyberattacks

D) their importance will decline in the coming years as the world gets more peaceful

Q2) Why did the United States continue to spend so much on defense even after the end of the Cold War? In what ways was this strategy effective,and in what ways was it ineffective?

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Q3) Terrorism is a social construction.

A)True

B)False

Q4) About __________ percent of Iraqi primary school children have shown symptoms of trauma.

A) 90

B) 70

C) 50

D) 30

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Chapter 19: Progressive Plan to Solve Social Problems

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Q1) Following World War II and lasting for about three decades,society became more inclusive in the United States.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Jonathan Kozol cites the fact that as a society we seem more ready to spend money to punish a child who grows up to commit a crime than to spend money to educate the child and prevent the crime in the first place as evidence of our collective __________.

Q3) Sociologists are rejected by those in power largely because they do not use mathematical models to test their theories.

A)True

B)False

Q4) Give an example of a way in which you,a friend,or a family member has demonstrated human agency.

Q5) Throughout U.S.history,individuals have organized to change elements of society that they deemed unethical,unjust,racist,sexist,or oppressive.

A)True

B)False

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