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Sociology Revision Week 27

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of concept is income?

a)

A stock concept

b)

A monetary concept

c)

A flow concept

d)

A wealth concept

2.

What type of concept is wealth?

a)

A financial concept

b)

A stock concept

c)

A monetary concept

d)

A fixed concept

3.

Car ownership would count as which type of wealth?

a)

Private pension wealth

b)

Property wealth

c)

Financial wealth

d)

Physical wealth

4.

Savings and investments would count as which type of wealth?

a)

Financial wealth

b)

Private pension wealth

c)

Property wealth

d)

Physical wealth

5.

What does the ONS base its surveys on wealth distribution on?

a)

The Annual Toff Index

b)

The Hope-Goldthorpe Index

c)

The Wealth & Asset Survey

d)

The Great British Class Survey

6.

From a sociological perspective, what can wealth do to rich people?

a)

Give them brain damage

b)

Insulate them against illness

c)

Insulate them from the realities of life for poor people

d)

Give them an exaggerated sense of importance

7.

Who found a clear link between age and wealth?

a)

The Bradford Commission

b)

The Birmingham Commission

c)

The Basingstoke Commission

d)

The Bognor Commission

8.

Who found that a large amount of wealth is inherited?

a)

Tony Blair

b)

Tony Robinson

c)

Tony Hadley

d)

Tony Atkinson

9.

The middle statistic in a range of statistics in ascending/descending order is known as...

a)

median

b)

average

c)

50th percentile

d)

central digit

10.

Senior staff enjoy which perks at work?

a)

holidays abroad

b)

occupational pensions

c)

Dominoes deliveries

d)

strippers

11.

How is the Living Wage calculated?

a)

the average wage of a Sports Direct Employee plus £3

b)

the basic cost of living in your local area

c)

the basic cost of living in the UK

d)

based on age and gender

12.

Who has refused to pay the Living Wage to its employees in 2013?

a)

McDonalds

b)

Network Rail

c)

the NHS

d)

supermarkets

13.

Where is the Living Wage higher?

a)

Andover

b)

London

c)

Edinburgh

d)

Sandbanks

14.

In 2009, how many employees were paid below the standard of living?

a)

10%

b)

40%

c)

20%

d)

30%

15.

Who found that 77% of workers under 20 earned below the living wage?

a)

the Revolution Foundation

b)

the Restitution Foundation

c)

the Retrospective Foundation

d)

the Resolution Foundation

16.

How many children live in poverty in the UK, according to the Child Poverty Action Group?

a)

1 in 4

b)

1 in 5

c)

1 in 3

d)

1 in 2

17.

A lack of basic essentials to survive physically is known as...

a)

physical poverty

b)

relative poverty

c)

absolute poverty

d)

basic poverty

18.

If a person's income is below that of the majority, this is known as...

a)

relative poverty

b)

absolute poverty

c)

minority poverty

d)

relational poverty

19.

What do critics say about the concept of absolute poverty?

a)

the statistics behind it are flawed

b)

it does not address all sectors of society

c)

it only addresses physical poverty, not social poverty

d)

it does not take account of BAME people

20.

What is the HBAI?

a)

Households Below Average Intelligence

b)

Households Below Average Increase

c)

Households Below Average Information

d)

Households Below Average Income

21.

According to the Trussell Trust, how many people were in food poverty in 2014?

a)

3.7 million

b)

4.1 million

c)

4.7 million

d)

5.1 million

22.

What is an agreed list of necessities called?

a)

The Agreed Model of Poverty

b)

The Agreed Necessity Index

c)

The Necessary Item Index

d)

The Consensual Measure of Poverty

23.

What is an indicator of poverty, according to the Consensual Measure?

a)

lacking 1 or more necessities

b)

lacking 3 or more necessities

c)

lacking 4 or more necessities

d)

lacking 5 or more necessities

24.

What is the measure of child poverty, according to the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission?

a)

if family income <40%of average earnings

b)

If family income >60% of average earnings

c)

if family income <60%of average earnings

d)

if family income >40%of average earnings

25.

What was the 1983 study on poverty called?

a)

Broke Britain

b)

Busted Britain

c)

Breadline Britain

d)

Buggered Britain