Poverty

Question 1

Parenting Stress Hypothesis

Answer 1

low income, unstable employment, lack of cultural resources, and a feeling of inferiority from social class comparisons increase household stress

Question 2

Absolute Poverty

Answer 2

a household’s income falls below the necessary level to purchase food to physically sustain its members

Question 3

Relative Poverty

Answer 3

measurement of poverty based on a % of the median income in a given location

Question 4

Culture of Poverty

Answer 4

poor people adopt certain practices that differ from those of middle-class mainstream society in order to survive in difficult circumstances

Question 5

Underclass

Answer 5

poor not only are different form mainstream society in their ability to take advantage of what mainstream society has to offer, but also are increasingly deviant and even dangerous to the rest of us

Question 6

Perverse Incentives

Answer 6

reward structures that lead to suboptimal outcomes by stimulating counterproductive behavior; welfare

Question 7

Functionalist Theory-poverty

Answer 7

poverty contributes to the overall well being of society

Question 8

Structural Poverty

Answer 8

failings at the structural level are to blame for poverty

Question 9

Marxist Theory-poverty

Answer 9

poverty are the natural result of the capitalist mode of production