SOCIAL PROBLEMS CH. 2 (MACIONIS 4TH) – Flashcards

A radical left solution to the problem of poverty would be

If you take a liberal point of view, poverty is mostly a problem that

Social stratification is defined as

If you wanted to study poverty in terms of race and ethnicity, you would probably use

In 1945, sociologists Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore made the claim that inequality has useful consequences for the operation of society. This claim is consistent with which type of theoretical analysis?

Experts estimate that about how many people in the United States are homeless at some point during a year?

Karl Marx argued that in a capitalist society, a system that produced so much ended up making the majority so poor. He called this

Most people in the United States who live below the poverty line are

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks as a conservative when he argues that the most effective way to prevent social problems like poverty is to

Anthropologist Oscar Lewis referred to cultural patterns that make poverty a way of life as

The educational policy of placing some children in college-bound ("academic") paths and others in job-oriented ("vocational") paths is called

Which term refers to the trend by which women represent an increasing share of the U.S. poor?

In explaining the problem of homelessness, conservatives point to

If you take a radical-left point of view, you see the main cause of poverty as

Families in the top 10 percent of income earn at least

Overall, the result of the 1996 federal welfare reform has been

In approaching the problem of homelessness, liberals point to

As of 2010, the typical "welfare family" received about how much assistance each month?

Sociologist Herbert Gans claimed that inequality benefits

The Williams family lives in an inner-city community that is poor, cut off from the larger society, and without good schools or good-paying jobs. This family is experiencing what sociologists call

The study of how race, class, and gender often result in multiple dimensions of disadvantage is called

If you were to take a conservative solution to the problem of poverty in the United States, you would focus on

To provide an example of a tax that is regressive rather than progressive, you would point to

A person who claims that government welfare assistance creates dependency is probably

Radicals on the left agree with liberals that poverty is

Jonas lives in a region of the United States with a very high poverty rate. He probably lives in

The term infant mortality refers to the risk of death

Poverty involves not only a lack of money; it also can mean a lack of skills, values, attitudes, and schooling, which together are called

According to which of the following political positions does the solution to poverty lie in government reforms, such as increasing the minimum wage and raising tax rates on the wealthy?

Which concept is used by the U.S. government for the purpose of counting the poor?

William Ryan's "blaming the victim" thesis states that many people believe the cause of poverty is found in