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Poverty disease and illness go together

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Violence accidents not being able to eat healthy or affording good food

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Homelessness

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Reply to poor people who like shelter and left primarily on the streets

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Why are people homeless

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Homelessness is due to personal shortcomings and with poverty low wage jobs and lack of affordable housing or major causes

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Social welfare program

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Organized efforts by government private organizations at individuals to assist needy people

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Three characteristics of government welfare

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Benefit people or activities defined as worthy
Benefit most of the US population
Reduce economic inequality but only a little

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True false most well there goes to the poor

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False Large companies do as well

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True false most income assistance goes to the able-bodied people who should be working

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False most low income people the benefit are either too old or too young to work

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True false once on welfare always on welfare

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Somewhat true but just barely

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True false most welfare benefits go to African-Americans and other minorities

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False non-Hispanic whites receive 43% of all food assistance money

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True false welfare encourage a single woman to have children

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Not true the number of children is the same weather on or off wellfare

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True false welfare fraud is a serious problem

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Not really

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The scientific certain movement

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And early form of sociology study categories of people rapport white people are poor and what could be done to help them

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Settlement house movement

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Houses buildings located in the worst limbs of the city

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Add to the families with dependent children

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Program with the federal government provided income to pour mothers with children

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Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act

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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

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TANF

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Temporary assistance for needy families

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What does TANF DUE

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Increases responsibility of able-bodied people defined a job limits. Of time families can be on benefits

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Bade Apple Theory

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Poverty results from personal flies

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Social Darwinism/herbert spencer

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View society as a competitive arena or most are able to become rich at least able to fall into poverty

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Culture of poverty

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Call Ferrell patterns that encourage property as a way of life

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Oscar Luis

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Social pathology approach the poor communities contain a culture of poverty people adapt to poverty excepting their flight and give up our

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Bell curve

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Social pathology theory

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Merit-ocracy

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social standing correspondence personal ability and effort

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Charles Murray

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Social pathologist study diverging cultures both high and low income communities
Pessimism And poor communities and optimism and high income communities

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New upper class and enlarging new lower class
Murray
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Social disorganization
Break down and social order caused by Rapid social change
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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
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Structural functional theory ski argument
Some poverty is natural unexpected part of life that has useful consequences
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Symbolic interaction
Explores how members of society view poor and come to understand causes of poverty
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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
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William Ryan
Father of blaming the victim approach
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Blaming the victim
Finding the cause of the social problem in the behavior of people who suffer from it
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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
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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
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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
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Social conflict theory view
Poverty a problem our society needs to fix
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The name of the sociologist of conflict theory
Karl marks
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Karl Marx views
Let the capitalist economy placed enormous wealth in the hands of a very few capitalist economy is the problem
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Ternal contradiction
System that produce too much ending up making the majority so poor
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Cultural capital
Skills values attitudes in schooling that increase a persons chances of success
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Pierre bourdieu | Jean Pearson
Social conflict sociologist argue that young people are born into affluent families benefit from rich cultural environment
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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
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Feminist theory
An important dimension of social conflict approach focuses on social any quality involving gender
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Patriarchy
A social pattern in which males dominate females men typically enjoy more wealth and prestige than women
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Feminization of poverty
Between Gender and poverty Or families headed by women women raising children by themselves
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Intersection theory
Investigation of interplay of race class gender resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage for everything converges
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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
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Structural functional theory view of poverty
Social pathology theory culture of poverty theory personal flaws and the culture of poor communities causes poverty
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Social disorganization theory
Part of structural functional theory links poverty and social problems to rapid social change
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Davis and more theory
With structural functionalists system of unequal rewards draws talent and encourages effort create social stratification
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Ganz
Structural functionalist points out any quality is useful primarily to Richard people
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Symbolic interaction view of poverty
Highlights meanings people attached to the poor
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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
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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
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Multicultural theory part of social conflict theory
High poverty rates of disadvantaged people including African-Americans and Latinos different ethnicities
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Feminist theory view of poverty
Gender view high rate of poverty among women as the consequence of patriarchy Intersection theory
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Intersection theory part of feminist theory
Dimensions of inequality explain how they result in a pattern of multiple disadvantages Where everything converges
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Conservative view on poverty
Self-reliance people should take responsibility for their personal well-being Believe in the market system that rewards individual effort
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Liberals view on poverty
Singapore is a job for everybody society responsibility Serious societal problem
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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
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Radical left What is the problem
Capital economic system concentrates the wealth and the hands of a small share of the population
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Radical left what is the solution
Capitalist system must undergo fundamental changes greater government control of economy
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Liberal view what is the problem
Millions of people have two little income and need assistance
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Radical view what is the solution
Higher taxes to expand government assistant programs
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Conservative view what is the problem
Poor people are worthy and should be helped social welfare programs can discourage people to work cause dependency
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Conservative view what is the solution
Provide short-term help to those who really need it promote personal responsibility

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