Chapter 2 Flashcards
Poverty disease and illness go together
Violence accidents not being able to eat healthy or affording good food
Homelessness
Reply to poor people who like shelter and left primarily on the streets
Why are people homeless
Homelessness is due to personal shortcomings and with poverty low wage jobs and lack of affordable housing or major causes
Social welfare program
Organized efforts by government private organizations at individuals to assist needy people
Three characteristics of government welfare
Benefit people or activities defined as worthy
Benefit most of the US population
Reduce economic inequality but only a little
True false most well there goes to the poor
False Large companies do as well
True false most income assistance goes to the able-bodied people who should be working
False most low income people the benefit are either too old or too young to work
True false once on welfare always on welfare
Somewhat true but just barely
True false most welfare benefits go to African-Americans and other minorities
False non-Hispanic whites receive 43% of all food assistance money
True false welfare encourage a single woman to have children
Not true the number of children is the same weather on or off wellfare
True false welfare fraud is a serious problem
Not really
The scientific certain movement
And early form of sociology study categories of people rapport white people are poor and what could be done to help them
Settlement house movement
Houses buildings located in the worst limbs of the city
Add to the families with dependent children
Program with the federal government provided income to pour mothers with children
Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act
Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act Shifted the responsibility for helping the poor from the government to the states and a to the families with dependent children program was ended
TANF
Temporary assistance for needy families
What does TANF DUE
Increases responsibility of able-bodied people defined a job limits. Of time families can be on benefits
Bade Apple Theory
Poverty results from personal flies
Social Darwinism/herbert spencer
View society as a competitive arena or most are able to become rich at least able to fall into poverty
Culture of poverty
Call Ferrell patterns that encourage property as a way of life
Oscar Luis
Social pathology approach the poor communities contain a culture of poverty people adapt to poverty excepting their flight and give up our
Bell curve
Social pathology theory
Merit-ocracy
social standing correspondence personal ability and effort
Charles Murray
Social pathologist study diverging cultures both high and low income communities
Pessimism And poor communities and optimism and high income communities
New upper class and enlarging new lower class
Murray
Social disorganization
Break down and social order caused by Rapid social change
Davis and moore 1
Difference in rewards given to people who perform jobs is useful for the operation Of society
A system of rewards makes society more productive for occupations
Structural functional theory ski argument
Some poverty is natural unexpected part of life that has useful consequences
Symbolic interaction
Explores how members of society view poor and come to understand causes of poverty
Structural functional personal deficiency approach
Thinking that is still white spread in our society defines po it is a reflection of shortcomings of the poor themselves
William Ryan
Father of blaming the victim approach
Blaming the victim
Finding the cause of the social problem in the behavior of people who suffer from it
The process of blaming the victim
Pick an issue
Decide how people who suffer different from everyone
Define these differences is the cause of the problem
Trying to change the victims not the higher society
William Ryan suggests
Instead of shaking our heads at the rundown houses were people live we should ask why society loud so many people to live this way
Symbolic interaction theory is useful for
The poverty is not simply an issue of money it’s also a matter of meetings or help people come to understand the larger world
Social conflict theory view
Poverty a problem our society needs to fix
The name of the sociologist of conflict theory
Karl marks
Karl Marx views
Let the capitalist economy placed enormous wealth in the hands of a very few capitalist economy is the problem
Ternal contradiction
System that produce too much ending up making the majority so poor
Cultural capital
Skills values attitudes in schooling that increase a persons chances of success
Pierre bourdieu
Jean Pearson
Social conflict sociologist argue that young people are born into affluent families benefit from rich cultural environment
Critics of social conflict theory
Being rich or poor reflects the choices people make or talents they have as individuals And mediocrity the ability to rise and fall based on an individual telling and effort
Feminist theory
An important dimension of social conflict approach focuses on social any quality involving gender
Patriarchy
A social pattern in which males dominate females men typically enjoy more wealth and prestige than women
Feminization of poverty
Between Gender and poverty Or families headed by women women raising children by themselves
Intersection theory
Investigation of interplay of race class gender resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage for everything converges
Critics say about feminist theory
There approaches said little about how opportunities for women in minorities have improved Some differences between the sexes reflect different choices people make
Structural functional theory view of poverty
Social pathology theory culture of poverty theory personal flaws and the culture of poor communities causes poverty
Social disorganization theory
Part of structural functional theory links poverty and social problems to rapid social change
Davis and more theory
With structural functionalists system of unequal rewards draws talent and encourages effort create social stratification
Ganz
Structural functionalist points out any quality is useful primarily to Richard people
Symbolic interaction view of poverty
Highlights meanings people attached to the poor
Ryan
Symbolic interaction theorist blaming the victim which is finding causes of poverty and the behavior of the poor society is Responsible for the poor
Social conflict view of poverty
Marks poverty results from the operation of the capitals economic system poverty is a matter of low level cultural capital multi cultural theory
Multicultural theory part of social conflict theory
High poverty rates of disadvantaged people including African-Americans and Latinos different ethnicities
Feminist theory view of poverty
Gender view high rate of poverty among women as the consequence of patriarchy Intersection theory
Intersection theory part of feminist theory
Dimensions of inequality explain how they result in a pattern of multiple disadvantages Where everything converges
Conservative view on poverty
Self-reliance people should take responsibility for their personal well-being Believe in the market system that rewards individual effort
Liberals view on poverty
Singapore is a job for everybody society responsibility Serious societal problem
Radical left view on poverty
Agree with liberals the poor cannot improve their situation on their own but Change the system completely replace capitalism with a humane economic system
Radical left What is the problem
Capital economic system concentrates the wealth and the hands of a small share of the population
Radical left what is the solution
Capitalist system must undergo fundamental changes greater government control of economy
Liberal view what is the problem
Millions of people have two little income and need assistance
Radical view what is the solution
Higher taxes to expand government assistant programs
Conservative view what is the problem
Poor people are worthy and should be helped social welfare programs can discourage people to work cause dependency
Conservative view what is the solution
Provide short-term help to those who really need it promote personal responsibility
