The culture-of-poverty hypothesis __________
A) is based on the belief that the poor have a deviant cultural pattern that is transmitted from generation to generation
B) argues that those who are poor are unfit
C) is an example of institutional theory
D) is the commonly accepted explanation of poverty within sociology
Answer: A
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