Exam

Question 1

How does age relate to poverty?

Answer 1

-older people are often retired and no longer gain income from employment
- spend the savings they have accumulated over their working lives
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Question 2

How does gender relate to poverty?

Answer 2

The glass ceiling: where an invisible Barrie through which the next level of advancement can be seen but cannot be reached by a section of qualified and deserving employees

• women: desire to spend time with their families
• the expenses of raising children make it difficult for single mothers to seek employment

Question 3

How does ethnicity and race relate to poverty?

Answer 3

• low average earnings of certain ethnic groups can be attributed to racist and discriminatory employment and hiring practices

Question 4

How does physical and mental disability relate to poverty?

Answer 4

• people with disabilities are generally excluded from participating in mainstream society
• face prejudice and discrimination - hard for then to find work

Question 5

tipping point

Answer 5

When an idea or behaviours becomes popular enough, it reaches it’s tipping point creating a social epidemic

Question 6

Social paradigm shift

Answer 6

When a new set if ideals, beliefs and values becomes strong enough to affect and change the way individuals see and perforce reality.

Question 7

School of thought

Answer 7

A certain way if interpreting a disciplines subject matter that had gained widespread credibility

Question 8

Agent of socialization

Answer 8

A person or institution that shapes an individuals social development

Question 9

Social stratification

Answer 9

The division/ separation I people, religion, class, sexual orientation

Question 10

Meritocracy

Answer 10

We earn out rewards through personal merit

Question 11

Wealth

Answer 11

The economic resources possessed by an individual or group

Question 12

Absolute poverty

Answer 12

The deprivation if resources that are considered essential: enough food, fresh water, a safe place to live

Question 13

Participant observation

Answer 13

A method if study in which anthropologists live with their subjects for a long time, participate as a group or community member and record their observations

Question 14

Gender identity

Answer 14

A persons sense of their own gender

Question 15

Egocentrism

Answer 15

A natural restriction on out perception caused by the fact that we can only see the world from out own perspective

Question 16

Marxism

Answer 16

A method if social analysis that focuses in class relations and societal conflict

Question 17

Agent of change

Answer 17

People who act as a catalyst for change