Sociology - poverty quiz

Question

What is absolute poverty?

Answer 1

Being poor in comparison to others in society

Answer 2

Being unable to afford things that are essential to live a healthy life

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Matches most people's understanding

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It accounts for different variations of 'healthy'

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Good for comparing globally

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Doesn't account for variations of healthy

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Difficult to measure

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Less relevant to countries with a good welfare state

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Ignores social aspects

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Information

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When people cannot afford a living standard experienced by most of society

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When people cannot afford the basic things necessary for a healthy life

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When people themselves think they are poor

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Useful when comparing globally as normal living standards don't vary much

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More relevant to societies with a good welfare state where absolute poverty has largely been removed

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Looks at social aspects because it accounts for people not being able to fully participate in society

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Over-estimates levels of poverty by comparing people to the average, as living standards in the UK are high

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Useful when comparing globally

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Less useful when comparing globally as normal living standards vary

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Never had a holiday

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Not having a cooked breakfast most days of the week

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Children - not having a party on their last birthday

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7.5 million

Answer 24

LCA (Low cost but acceptable)

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HBAI (Households below average income)

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Allows European poverty rates to be compared

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Accounts for people who have a disability and their extra costs of living

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Useful for governments when setting benefits because it is an income level

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HBAI doesn't account for how cost of living varies across the country e.g London

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Doesn't account for the extra costs of having a disability

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Not useful for setting benefits

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Based on an income level so useful for setting benefits

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Looks at psychological aspects - how people feel about their own situation

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Deprivation index

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Financial satisfaction 0-10 scale

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Being unable to fully participate in society due to poor housing or lack of money

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Being unable to access life chances and opportunities experienced by most of society

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Lack of jobs

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Lacking access to public transport

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Lack of affordable housing

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Lack of jobs

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Lack of access to living in a safe environment due to high crime

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Lack of affordable housing due to rent in cities being harder

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Highlights how being poor is more complex than lacking money e.g someone in a village is more likely to be socially excluded than someone living in a city

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An income level so easy for governments to use

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Any money coming into the household on a regular basis e.g a wage

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Ownership of assets e.g property and savings. These assets have value, but are extra to day to day living costs

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Any asset you own but can also be sold e.g car

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Something you own but can't sell e.g pension

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Things the owner uses e.g car

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Something you own but can't sell e.g pension

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When something you own provides an income e.g owning a house that you rent out

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Any asset you own that can be sold e.g car

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Things that the owner uses e.g car

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When an asset provides an income e.g owning a property that you rent out

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When people do not admit the amount of wealth they have, to avoid paying tax on them

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When people say things to make them look good

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Any money coming into the household on a regular basis e.g wage

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Money generated from work

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Income before income tax is deducted

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Income generated from actual work

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Income generated from work

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Income not generated from actual work e.g rent given by tenants on a house you own

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Family resources survey - collects information on the income of household in UK using face to face interviews

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Wealth and assets survey - Large survey based on household interviews in the UK

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Working 'cash in hand'

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Giving it to people they know

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Declaring things as expenses to pay less income tax

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Inheritance Tax - paid on an estate when somebody dies, if it is over £325,000. To avoid wealth being passed on within families

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Direct tax - taken from wages, the more you earn, the more tax you pay

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Capital gains tax - reduce profits from selling a property if you own more than one

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Indirect taxes - added to things you buy e.g VAT

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Capital gains tax - Reduce profits from selling a property if the person owns more than one

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Direct tax - taken straight from wages, the more you earn the more you pay in tax

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Cash benefits - given by the state to supplement low incomes e.g working tax credits

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Benefits in kind - provided by state, freely available e.g state education

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Higher than average levels of unemployment

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They can rely on more than one income

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Working in high paid jobs

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If working, more likely to be working part-time

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Their children can work

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Income has to spread further e.g more food

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Childcare costs are higher

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21% of women live in low income households compared to 19% of men

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19% of women live in low income households compared to 17% of men

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Full-time, permanent work which tends to be dominated by men

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Low-pay, low skill jobs which are usually part-time

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Living in lone parent families - Lone parents have high levels of unemployment and low out of work benefits

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Living in large families - Higher rates of unemployment due to unaffordable childcare costs, and having to buy more food, uniforms etc

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Not working themselves - families rely on only one or two incomes

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Having a disability - Costs an additional £99 per week to bring up a disabled child

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Households with parents in low paid jobs - Given less training, therefore less progression, keeping them trapped in poverty

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Age concern found that women receive less pension than their husbands

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Women on average, live longer than men so their retirement savings run out and they have less savings than men in the first place

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Higher than average levels of unemployment

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Welfare benefits they receive are inadequate

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If they didn't save up enough for a private pension

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Ageism - employers think they're not capable or too old/ill

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£300 a week

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£200 a week

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£250 a week

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Bangladeshis (70%) and Pakistanis (60%)

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Pakistanis (60%) and Black Africans (50%)

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Women from these ethnic groups are more likely to not want paid work thank other ethnicities

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Unemployment rates 3x higher for them than other ethnicities

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Live 20% longer than other ethnicities

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Black Carribeans

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Bangladeshis

Answer 109

Black Africans

Answer 110

Bangladeshis

Answer 111

When customers and staff of an institution have been found to project racist behaviour

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How the day to day practices of an institution have racist outcomes

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Job adverts not being available in different languages

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Ignoring a member of staff who is of an ethnic minority

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A group of workers who seek part-time work, due to reasons such as childcare

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Workers who are used when needed, but disposed of when their labour is no longer needed

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Government

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Individual

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Oscar Lewis

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People in poverty are made to form a separate culture due to the way society causes them to be social exclusion

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People in poverty develop a culture with norms and values which prevent them escaping poverty e.g fatalistic

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Individual characteristics, work characteristics and wealth characteristics

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Individual characteristics, family characteristics and community characteristics

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Murray and Marsland

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Connell and Flaherty

Answer 126

Cycle of poverty explains why poverty persist over generations

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Cycle of poverty explains what individuals do to cause the persistence of their poverty

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Factors caused by the individual e.g not taking job opportunities

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Factors beyond an individuals control e.g low pay

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The state gives over generous welfare benefits, creating a culture of dependency

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The state do not provide enough help for the poor, they need more universal benefits and help with seeking jobs

Answer 132

Means tested

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Patriarchy, illegitimacy and poor housing

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Crime, illegitimacy and unemployment

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Individual

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An economic system where the individual is responsible for himself, not profit driven

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An economic system which means private ownership of means of production, heavily profit driven

Answer 138

Poverty exists because it perfoms positive functions

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Poverty is a result of the market position of individuals

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widely available

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rare and in demand

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an inevitable outcome of a patriarchal structure

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caused by men being dominant

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A structural, consensus theory

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A cultural, consensus theory

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A cultural, conflict theory

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A structural, consensus theory

Answer 148

No stigma attached as they're free

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Saves gov. money as there is no eligibility test

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Reduces culture of dependency

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Prevents poverty trap - people get them without paying so working won't make them poorer

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Save the state money as they are given to people who need it

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Stigma attached

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Have to test for eligibility

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Marxists say it tricks workers into thinking society is fair

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New Right say it creates a culture of dependency

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Expensive because people may claim without needing them so taxes rise

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Save state money - only given to people who need them

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Assessed in relation to income

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Too expensive

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No stigma attached

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Reduces culture of dependency

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More stigma attached so people may not claim them

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Assessed in relation to income

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Creates poverty trap as they are taken away if you start working

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Can be expensive - have to test eligibility

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Create a culture of dependency

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1940 - 1979

Answer 169

1918 - 1940

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Want, idleness, disease, squalor and ignorance

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Patriarchy, capitalism, universal benefits, poor housing and low pay

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Ignorance to work

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Unemployment

Answer 174

Social democratic

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