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.Management Sciences
Category: Poverty,Social,Exclusion and Welfare
The notion of citizenship rights is associated with______________?
A. T.H Huxley
B. A.H Halsey
C. T.H Marshall
D. E.H Carr
Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of households below 60 per cent of median income ?
A. Whites
B. Indians
C. Black Caribbean’s
D. Bangladeshis
Which of these is not an example of social exclusion ?
A. tax avoidance
B. gated communities
C. homelessness
D. none of these
Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?
A. stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
B. rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
C. fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
D. rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion
Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?
A. primary/secondary
B. weak/strong
C. general/specific
D. old/new
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries
Put these stages in the evolution of citizenship in chronological order _____________?
A. civil rights political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship
B. social citizenship political citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
C. political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
D. civil rights environmental citizenship social citizenship political citizenship
Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?
A. to be killed in road accident
B. to have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
C. to live in male-headed households
D. none of the above
Which of these is not a critique of attempts to measure relative deprivation ?
A. the personal experience of poverty is not the concern of sociologists
B. there is an arbitrary nature to how items are selected for a deprivation index
C. it may be choice not poverty that means some people do not qualify for some of the items on a deprivation index
D. the subjective nature of such indices means it is difficult to make comparisons between different studies and time periods
Which of these countries has the smallest proportion of people living on less than $1 a day_______________?
A. Bangladesh
B. Mozambique
C. China
D. Pakistan
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