The person who first defined the poverty line was _____________________________
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Mollie Orshansky
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Émile Durkheim emphasized a social strain theory of social problems
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. After the Civil War up to the end of the century, beliefs about the biological inferiority of African Americans declined in favor of more sociocultural explanations of inferiority. 2. After the Civil War, the South maintained a belief in the biological inferiority of African Americans, while the North dropped such notions. 3. Homer Plessy was the judge who mandated segregated facilities in the South at the end of the last century. 4. Beliefs about African Americans still emphasize their cultural inferiority. 5. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to overrule the "black codes" emerging in the South after the Civil War.
Using a sociological perspective, C. Wright Mills points out that unemployment is _____
a. a product of the situation b. related to the structure of society and social institutions c. only an individual problem d. none of the above
How has the timing of the transition to a free-market economy been used to partially explain the great difference in inequality and poverty between the United States and other advanced democracies?
a.) Countries that transitioned to a free-market economy later than the United States usually had no history of feudalism. b.) Institutions that could better protect the weak or disadvantaged were more fully developed in countries that transitioned to a free-market economy later than the United States. c.) Countries that transitioned to a free-market economy later than the United States usually had a more centralized form of government that could impose very high taxes on citizens. d.) Institutions that could better protect the weak or disadvantaged were more fully developed in countries that transitioned to a free-market economy sooner than the United States.