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WorksheetsSociology Revision Week 27
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What type of concept is income?
A stock concept
A monetary concept
A flow concept
A wealth concept
What type of concept is wealth?
A financial concept
A stock concept
A monetary concept
A fixed concept
Car ownership would count as which type of wealth?
Private pension wealth
Property wealth
Financial wealth
Physical wealth
Savings and investments would count as which type of wealth?
Financial wealth
Private pension wealth
Property wealth
Physical wealth
What does the ONS base its surveys on wealth distribution on?
The Annual Toff Index
The Hope-Goldthorpe Index
The Wealth & Asset Survey
The Great British Class Survey
From a sociological perspective, what can wealth do to rich people?
Give them brain damage
Insulate them against illness
Insulate them from the realities of life for poor people
Give them an exaggerated sense of importance
Who found a clear link between age and wealth?
The Bradford Commission
The Birmingham Commission
The Basingstoke Commission
The Bognor Commission
Who found that a large amount of wealth is inherited?
Tony Blair
Tony Robinson
Tony Hadley
Tony Atkinson
The middle statistic in a range of statistics in ascending/descending order is known as...
median
average
50th percentile
central digit
Senior staff enjoy which perks at work?
holidays abroad
occupational pensions
Dominoes deliveries
strippers
How is the Living Wage calculated?
the average wage of a Sports Direct Employee plus £3
the basic cost of living in your local area
the basic cost of living in the UK
based on age and gender
Who has refused to pay the Living Wage to its employees in 2013?
McDonalds
Network Rail
the NHS
supermarkets
Where is the Living Wage higher?
Andover
London
Edinburgh
Sandbanks
In 2009, how many employees were paid below the standard of living?
10%
40%
20%
30%
Who found that 77% of workers under 20 earned below the living wage?
the Revolution Foundation
the Restitution Foundation
the Retrospective Foundation
the Resolution Foundation
How many children live in poverty in the UK, according to the Child Poverty Action Group?
1 in 4
1 in 5
1 in 3
1 in 2
A lack of basic essentials to survive physically is known as...
physical poverty
relative poverty
absolute poverty
basic poverty
If a person's income is below that of the majority, this is known as...
relative poverty
absolute poverty
minority poverty
relational poverty
What do critics say about the concept of absolute poverty?
the statistics behind it are flawed
it does not address all sectors of society
it only addresses physical poverty, not social poverty
it does not take account of BAME people
What is the HBAI?
Households Below Average Intelligence
Households Below Average Increase
Households Below Average Information
Households Below Average Income
According to the Trussell Trust, how many people were in food poverty in 2014?
3.7 million
4.1 million
4.7 million
5.1 million
What is an agreed list of necessities called?
The Agreed Model of Poverty
The Agreed Necessity Index
The Necessary Item Index
The Consensual Measure of Poverty
What is an indicator of poverty, according to the Consensual Measure?
lacking 1 or more necessities
lacking 3 or more necessities
lacking 4 or more necessities
lacking 5 or more necessities
What is the measure of child poverty, according to the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission?
if family income <40%of average earnings
If family income >60% of average earnings
if family income <60%of average earnings
if family income >40%of average earnings
What was the 1983 study on poverty called?
Broke Britain
Busted Britain
Breadline Britain
Buggered Britain
