Poverty

Which definition of poverty is when income is insufficient in obtaining the minimum needed to survive?

• absolute

• relative

• subjective

• deprivation

Which type of poverty is when someone cannot afford to meet the general standard of living of most people in their society?

Which measure of poverty is based on whether people see themselves as in poverty?

• environmental

• subjective

• collective

• deprivation

Who developed a relative deprivation index to measure poverty?

• Townsend

• Davis and Moore

• Weber

• Marx

Which theory argues poverty is necessary and ensures menial, dirty and dangerous job roles are filled?

Which theory argues poverty is inevitable in a capitalist society?

Who do feminists argue are at a greater risk of poverty?

What can we use to examine a moving picture of poverty over time?

• culture of poverty

• material deprivation

• cultural deprivation

• life cycle of poverty

Which theory argues people who grow up in poverty develop a way of life that makes it hard to escape poverty?

• culture of poverty

• canalisation

• postmodernism

• interactionism

Which theory argues children who are born into poverty suffer material deprivation which impacts their careers and leads to them having children born into poverty?

• cultural capital

• cycle of deprivation

• social action theory

• individualism