The official definition of poverty emphasizes __________ levels; it seeks to describe poverty objectively as the lack of enough income to acquire the minimum necessities of life.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
subsistence
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is an example of institutional discrimination?
a. a landlord's refusal to rent apartments to nonwhites b. a manager's refusal to hire gays and lesbians c. damage to a Jewish synagogue by a group of teenage vandals d. a corporation's systematic denial to women of access to managerial positions
Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not.
c. human beings have no free will.
d. the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.
The systematic study of trends in population characteristics is known as ______.
A. ecology B. demography C. topography D. phrenology