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Chapter 10 - Poverty, Social Exclusion and Welfare
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
Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because:
a) the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
b) they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
c) the median is a more accurate measurement of earnings than the mean
d) all of the above
Which of the following did not appear in Townsend’s 1979 deprivation index?
a) going without a cooked meal in the previous fourteen days
b) living in a household without a refrigerator
c) not having access to a washing machine in the household
d) not having fresh meat at least four days of the week
The PSE survey showed that, between 1983 and 1999, the proportion of people above the poverty threshold:
a) rose from 4% to 8%
b) rose from 14% to 24%
c) rose from 15% to 19%
d) fell from 24% to 21%
Children living in poverty tend to be more likely:
a) to be killed in a road accident
b) to have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
c) to live in male-headed households
d) none of the above
Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of its members in the bottom income quintile?
a) Whites
b) Indians
c) Black Caribbeans
d) Pakistani/Bangladeshis
Which of these is not an example of social exclusion?
a) tax avoidance
b) gated communities
c) homelessness
d) none of the above
The notion of citizenship rights is associated with:
a) T. H. Huxley
b) A. H. Halsey
c) T. H. Marshall
d) E. H. Carr
Which of these constitute the three worlds of welfare capitalism?
a) social democratic, socialist, communist
b) social democratic, corporatist, liberal
c) social democratic, christian-democratic, nationalist
d) none of the above
The attempt to roll back the welfare state in Britain was ultimately only partially achieved because:
a) there was insufficient budget to push through the proposed policies
b) welfare provision in the United States has become residualized
c) a network of interest groups mobilized in support of welfare
d) the welfare state was created in a period of full employment
Anthony Giddens — Sociology, 5th Edition
