Poverty 4

Define ‘the Welfare State’

• a system that allows the government to steal the blood of its citizens to drink in order to stay young and healthy

• a system that allows the government of a country to provide social services such as healthcare, unemployment benefit, etc. to people who need them, paid for by taxes.

• a system that allows the government to put anyone they deem unfit into a care home

• All of the above

Most developed countries have some form of welfare state?

• True

• False

Which of these is supported by the U.K. welfare state?

• Sickness and Disability

• Old Age

• Job Loss

• All of the above

What percentage of the U.K. GDP is spent on the welfare state?

• 27.2%

• 37.2%

• 47.2%

• 57.2%

Who was the Sociologist we looked at in regard to "promoting active citizenship"?

• T.H SLIM

• T.H SHADY

• T.H MARSHALL

• T.H MATHERS

Fill in the blank: Queen Elizabeth I’s government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, by passing the law: the BLANK Act For the Relief of the Poor

• 1432

• 1563

• 1987

• Well I've been to the year 3,000. Not much has changed but they live underwater.

Which of these is NOT one of the five "evils" mentioned by Beveridge?

• Squalor

• Want

• Capitalism

• Idleness

What is absolute poverty?

• where individuals and families are deprived of the

  opportunities the majority of people in their

  society enjoy

• the minimum factors required to sustain a

  physically healthy existence

• having a bank account with less than £1

• All of the above

What is relative poverty?

• where individuals and families are deprived of the

  opportunities the majority of people in their

  society enjoy

• the minimum factors required to sustain a

  physically healthy existence

• having a bank account with less than £1

• All of the above

What does the New Right blame for poverty?

• the capitalist system for encouraging greed and inequality

• the culture of the poor and the government for encouraging very poor people to be dependent on benefits

• the release of a Jon Bon Jovi Greatest Hits album rather than new material

• All of the above