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