The term "feminization of poverty" means that:
a. an increasing number of poor families are headed by single females
b. most jobs for women are low-paying
c. most poor people are women
d. that women are more likely to lose their jobs
A
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In the late 1980s, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton examined large cities across the United States and documented the existence of a pattern they called
a. hypersegregation. b. central isolation. c. overcrowding. d. urban sprawl.
High-poverty communities are also __________.
A) usually gated B) disproportionately majority white C) given more resources D) resource poor
Marcie wants to be a fire fighter when she grows up. When she hears the siren of a fire engine, she pretends she is riding on it to fight a fire. For her birthday, her parents give her a fire fighter costume. This is an example of:
a. role conflict. b. intergenerational mobility. c. informal socialization. d. formal socialization. e. occupational inheritance.
According to your text, which of the following statements is true?
A. functionalists portray the elderly as being socially isolated, with reduced social roles B. Internationalists see older people as being involved in new networks of people and in changing social roles C. conflict theorists regard older people as being victimized by social structure, with their social roles relatively unchanged but devalued D. all of the above