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social issues final

Raquel Lindsay-M 116 perguntas

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  1. 11. What do we call the lack of basic necessities of life, such as food, clean water, and housing?
    1. Aa. total poverty
    2. Bb. absolute poverty
    3. Cc. basic poverty
    4. Dd. relative poverty
  2. 22. What do we call a deficiency of material and economic resources compared with some other group(s)?
    1. Aa. relative poverty
    2. Bb. comparative poverty
    3. Cc. absolute poverty
    4. Dd. standardized poverty
  3. 33. What is the “market basket measure”?
    1. Aa. a measure of total poverty
    2. Bb. a measure of relative poverty
    3. Cc. a measure of caloric intake
    4. Dd. a measure of absolute poverty
  4. 44. What is the “poverty threshold” set by the World Bank in industrialized countries?
    1. Aa. $1.25 per day
    2. Bb. $14.25 per day
    3. Cc. $25.25 per day
    4. Dd. $31.25 per day
  5. 55. Among the 17 industrialized countries for which the Human Poverty Index was calculated in 2001, which country had the lowest rate of human poverty?
    1. Aa. Canada
    2. Bb. Sweden
    3. Cc. the United States
    4. Dd. England
  6. 66. In Canada, low income cut-off lines are primarily based on size of family and one other factor. What is the other factor?
    1. Aa. size of community in which one lives
    2. Bb. mortgage rates
    3. Cc. cost of borrowing money
    4. Dd. relative value of the Canadian dollar
  7. 77. According to the Global Poverty Report (2000), what percentage of global wealth do the poorest 50 percent of the world’s population account for?
    1. Aa. 1 percent
    2. Bb. 2 percent
    3. Cc. 4 percent
    4. Dd. 6 percent
  8. 88. What does the structural-functionalist perspective say about social classes and poverty?
    1. Aa. They are not necessary.
    2. Bb. They are the result of greed.
    3. Cc. They are inevitable.
    4. Dd. They are corporate by-products
  9. 99. Which perspective takes the view that an unequal economic reward system helps to assure that the person who performs a particular role is the most qualified?
    1. Aa. the conflict perspective
    2. Bb. the structural-functionalist perspective (333)
    3. Cc. the symbolic interactionist perspective
    4. Dd. the political economy perspective
  10. 1010. Which view of poverty has received a great deal of criticism from contemporary sociologists, who point out that many important occupational roles (such as child care worker) are poorly paid, whereas many individuals in nonessential roles (such as entertainers) earn astronomical sums of money?
    1. Aa. conflict view
    2. Bb. structural-functionalist view
    3. Cc. symbolic interactionist view
    4. Dd. feminist view

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Quiz sobre social issues final, criado por Raquel Lindsay-M em 05-11-2015.
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