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Underclass

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 18mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of these does Wiggan suggests makes social security reform a key battleground?

a)

Public expenditure

b)

Economic Growth

c)

Poverty

d)

All of the above

2.

Wigan suggests behavioural explanations of poverty help ensure social security...

a)

goes to those who need it

b)

creates equality of outcome

c)

is an active agent in moulding citizens

d)

All of the above

3.

Conditionality can be argued to reinforce

a)

personal responsibility and self-motivation

b)

state and third sector responsibilty

4.

Wigan argues

a)

the crafting and selling of a repackaged left wing vision of welfare reform is an exercise in misdirection and revivification.

b)

the crafting and selling of a repackaged right wing vision of welfare reform is an exercise in social justice.

c)

the crafting and selling of a repackaged neo-liberal

vision of welfare reform is an exercise in misdirection and revivification.

5.

Instead the ownership of Coalition welfare reform, particularly Universal Credit: Welfare that Works, is associated with...

a)

Tony Blair

b)

David Cameron

c)

Iain Duncan Smith

d)

Damian Hinds

6.

What is the Centre for Social Justice?

a)

A roundabout

b)

A think tank

c)

A group campaigning for equailty

d)

A building

7.

What does The Centre for Social Justice focus on?

a)

Family breakdown, poverty, crime, substance misuse,

unemployment and the social security system.

b)

Ensuring all defendants have legal representation

c)

Fighting for paternal rights

8.

Wigan staes that the coalition policies implicitly convey the message that...

a)

people claim benefits because they are rational economic actors

b)

benefit income is more secure and attractive than employment

c)

incentives to take and sustain paid work are weak

d)

all of the abiove and that this then creates a culture of worklessness

9.

Analysis of press coverage of disability and sickness benefit receipt in 2004–05 and 2010–11 shows attitudes have hardened in the latter period.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Does Wigan think poverty and unemployment are linked to...

a)

peronal behaviour

b)

market failure

c)

income inadequacy

d)

poor personal choices