Exam 7: Poverty

The culture-of-poverty hypothesis __________.

__________ occurs when the customary ways of doing things, the prevailing attitudes and expectations, and the accepted structural arrangements in society disadvantage the poor.

The culture-of-poverty hypothesis is based on the belief that the poor have a deviant cultural pattern that is transmitted from generation to generation.

Identify and discuss the myths about poverty that abound in American society. Why do these myths prevail?

Jeff is a part of a hidden system of tax breaks and advantages given to his corporation directly in the form of subsidies and indirectly in the form of tax loopholes. Jeff benefits from __________.

__________ are legal tax loopholes that allow the affluent to escape paying certain taxes and receive a subsidy.

Almost 10 percent of Non-Hispanic Whites are in poverty.

After looking at all of the evidence of underachievement, Karen comes to the conclusion that the poor must be lacking in some innate ability and are thus destined to remain poor. Her views are in line with __________ theories.

Bill lives in a(n) __________ where over 40 percent of his neighbors is in poverty.

The __________, those whose incomes are at half the poverty line or less, make up over 6 percent of the U.S. population.

Most government subsidies go to the nonpoor. These are known as __________.

Women are __________ likely than men to be among the working poor.

The 1996 welfare reform legislation was officially called the __________.

People may be missed by the census because they __________.

The census generally __________ the number of poor.

When the social arrangements and accepted ways of doing things in society disadvantage minority groups, it is known as __________.

The severely poor are __________ off than those slightly below the poverty line.

Assess institutional discrimination and its consequences. Who benefits? Who suffers? How is such a system maintained? Ideal

Mary lives on the streets. She begs for money and food and often goes hungry. She is __________.

Though this is not a new phenomenon, the trend for contemporary women to be more _________than men is known as __________.