Week Two

Question 1

Absolute Poverty

Answer 1

A dollar value that is firmly set; anyone who earns less than that amount is officially categorized as poor

Question 2

Relative Poverty

Answer 2

Uses comparisons to determine who is poor and who is not. begins with agreement about the level of economic resources the average person should have and then uses that standard to determine who has enough and who does not.

Question 3

Poverty Threshold

Answer 3

The poverty line; the absolute measure the federal and state governments use to define poverty.

Question 4

When did the SSA (Social Security Administration) set the Poverty Line?

Answer 4

1963

Question 5

Juvenilization of Poverty

Answer 5

The tendency for children to disproportionately represented in the ranks of those who are poor.

Question 6

Feminization of Poverty

Answer 6

Poverty is more likely to happen to women than to men.

Question 7

Culture of Poverty

Answer 7

People learn to be poor from growing up in impoverished areas.

Question 8

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Answer 8

Provides cash assistance for people who are poor and are 65 or older, or blind, or disabled. Created in 1935 as separate programs, and then consolidated in 1972

Question 9

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Answer 9

Evolved out of 1996 policy changes to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Limited to 24 consecutive months and a life-time total of five years.

Question 10

Devolution Services

Answer 10

The movement of programs from the federal level to the state level.

Question 11

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Answer 11

Originated in the 1930s as an agricultural support effort in which the government purchased food that growers could not sell and gave the food to people in need. Changed from the Food Stamp Program to SNAP in 2008

Question 12

Political Advocacy

Answer 12

Knowledge of the public policy process, how legislators create policy, and where in that process intervention can take place.

Question 13

Hate Crimes

Answer 13

People being victimized because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, or gender or gender identity.

Question 14

Social Justice

Answer 14

The level of fairness that exists in human relationships.

Question 15

Injustice

Answer 15

Coercively established and maintained inequalities, discrimination, and dehumanizing, development-inhibiting conditions of living, imposed by dominant social groups, classes, and peoples upon dominated and exploited groups, classes, and people.

Question 16

Prejudice

Answer 16

An attitude that involves judging or disliking groups and individuals based on myths and misconceptions.

Question 17

Discrimination

Answer 17

An action that involves treating people differently, usually by denying them something based on their membership in a group.

Question 18

Opression

Answer 18

Systematic and pervasive mistreatment of people based on their membership in a certain group. it restricts people’s opportunities, life chances, beliefs in what they can be, and self-determination.

Question 19

Institutional Discrimination

Answer 19

Occurs when discrimination is built into the norms and institutions in society and is enforced by those in power.

Question 20

Racism

Answer 20

Systematic mistreatment of people based on race; institutionalized and perpetrated by members of groups who have power or control over society and its institutions.

Question 21

Sexism

Answer 21

Oppression that grows out of the belief that men are superior to women.

Question 22

Heterosexism

Answer 22

Institutionalized bias directed at gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and people who are transgender; discrimination in housing and employment

Question 23

Classism

Answer 23

Institutional and cultural attitudes and behaviors that stigmatize the poor and place a higher value on wealthier people.

Question 24

Ableism

Answer 24

Oppression of people with disabilities

Question 25

Ageism

Answer 25

The belief in the superiority of youth over age and the systematic oppression of people because they are older.

Question 26

Anti-Semitism

Answer 26

Systematic discrimination against, or oppression, of Jews

Question 27

Cis Normativity (Cisgender privilege)

Answer 27

Systemic advantages people who identify with their birth gender experience.

Question 28

Privilege