Deviant Behavior 10th Edition By Goode Emeritus – Test Bank

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CHAPTER FOUR POVERTY AND DISREPUTE

True-False Questions

1) For many years, sociologists rarely discussed poverty as a form of deviance.

(True, p. 75)

2) According to Merton, members of the lower economic reaches of society are more likely than the middle classes to engage in innovative and retreatist forms of deviance.

(True, p. 75)

3) One of the earliest arguments charging the poor with a moral failing was laid out by Marx in his An Essay on the Principle of Population.

(False, p. 77)

4) The United Nations research indicates that the most equitably distributed economics are nations in Africa and Latin America. 

(False, p. 77)

5) Malthus was one of the most venomous stigmatizers of the poor in the history of social thought. 

(True, p. 77)

6) According to Malthus, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged.

(False, p. 78)

7) David Matza argued that sociologists have ignored the issue of the “disreputable poor” because they did not want to be charged with stigmatizing them.

(True, p. 78)

8) Belief in a just world is crucial for people to maintain a sense of well being, according to Melvin Lerner.

(True, p. 79)

9) There is no moral dimension to poverty.

(False, p. 79)

10) The humiliation and shame that poverty engenders leads to reduced freedom and agency. 

(True, p. 79)

11) Richard Nixon declared a “war on poverty”. 

(False, p. 80)

12) Urban poverty is even more extreme than rural poverty. 

(False, p. 81)

Chapter 4  Poverty and Disrepute

13) Poverty is persistent even in areas where affluence is widespread. 

(True, p. 81)

14) The economic collapse of 2008 may have had an effect on how people view poverty and people living in poverty. 

(True, p. 84)

15) The 7-8% unemployment rate is based in part on “fuzzy math” and may not be entirely accurate. 

(True, p. 84)

16)  Workers over fifty who are laid off often do better than their employed counterparts because they have less stress in their lives. 

(False, pp. 85)

17) Recipients of welfare benefits report negative treatment by their neighbors and peers as a consequence of using food stamp coupons.

(True, p. 86)

18) Society looks more kindly on beggars than other people in poverty.

(False, p. 86)

19) Researchers have found that public perceptions of homelessness were more positive than those of the formerly hospitalized for mental illness.

(False, p. 88)

20) In his book The Status Syndrome, Michael Marmot argues that a long, healthy life and good health are strongly related to education, income, and socioeconomic status.

(True, p. 88)

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Multiple Choice Questions

1) Marshall Clinard’s classic deviance text, reasoned that poverty acts as a breeding ground of:

(a) delinquency  

(b) crime

(c) alcoholism

(d) prostitution

    *(e) all of the above

(p. 75)

2) In his book Social Deviation, James Ford argued:

*(a) lower-class existence not only bred but manifested deviancy.

(b) people could easily climb out of poverty.

(c) once people fell into poverty, there was no way out.

(d) that mental illness was the only way into poverty.

(e) none of the above

(p. 76)

3) According to data gathered and tabulated by the United Nations Development Programme, the per capita Gross Domestic Product is:

(a) substantially more inequitably distributed in Great Britain than in almost any of the three-dozen wealthiest nations on the planet.

*(b) substantially more inequitably distributed in the United States than in almost any of the three-dozen wealthiest nations on the planet.

(c) the rich are getting poorer in the United States.

(d) income distribution is quite equitable in the United States.

(e) none of the above

(p. 76)

4) One of the earliest arguments charging the poor with a moral failing was laid out by:

(a) Thomas Merton. 

(b) Aristotle.

*(c) Thomas Malthus.

(d) Max Weber.

(e) none of the above

(p. 77)

5) With relation to poverty, Max Weber argued that:  

     (a) With hard work, people could climb out of poverty.

*(b) societies adapt religious beliefs to their own social and cultural needs.

(c) the poor were “incorrigbles”.

(d) an expanding population will put a severe strain on available resources.

(e) none of the above

(p. 77)

Chapter 4  Poverty and Disrepute

6) Who argued that little can be done to improve the hapless, hopeless existence of the stigmatized, demoralized, pauperized poor? 

(a) Michel Foucault

(b) Max Weber

*(c) David Matza

(d) Amartya Sen

(e) none of the above

(pp. 78-79)

7) Which of the following about Amartya Sen is true?

(a) He is a sociologist.

*(b) He is known for his work on reducing famine by improving food distribution.

(c) He is concerned with how disease affects the poor.

(d) He does most of his work in Latin America.

(e) all of the above

(p. 79)

8) In 2011, the poverty threshold for a one-person household was drawn at:

(a) $9,000

(b) $10,000

(c) $10, 468

*(d) $11, 484

(e) none of the above

(p. 80)

9) Where are the poorest five cities in America located?

(a) in the Northeast

(b) on the West Coast

*(c) in former “rust belt” municipalities

(d) in the Southwest

(e) in the “sun belt”

(p. 80)

10) According to U.S. Census figures, over half of this city’s children live in poverty.

(a) Miami

(b) New York City

*(c) Detroit

(d) Los Angeles

(e) none of the above

(p. 81)

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11) Charles Horton Cooley discussed the implications of this in his book Human Nature and Social Order:

(a) relativism.

*(b) the looking-glass self. 

(c) control theory. 

(d) reactionism.

(e) none of the above. 

(p. 82)

12) With relation to poverty, Martha Nussbaum argues that: 

(a) the poor have access to many financial resources to help them.

(b) education could help the poor climb out of poverty.

*(c) poverty is one of humanity’s most stigmatizing conditions. 

(d) income inequality is not as great as is reported in the United States.

(e) none of the above. 

(p. 83)

13) Which of the following is true about the unemployment rate? 

     (a) Currently, it is around three percent.

*(b) It includes only workers looking for work who have filed a claim for unemployment benefits.

(c) It has fluctuated wildly and erratically from year to year.

(d) It remains unknown and unknowable.

(e) none of the above

(p. 84)

14) In fully industrialized countries such as the United States, the “informal” economy makes up this percent of the total.

(a) 20%

(b) 30%

(c) less than 1%

*(d) less than 10% 

  (e) none of the above

(p. 84)

15) Which of the following is true of the unemployed? 

(a) They experience higher rates of depression.

(b) They experience psychological distress. 

(c) They experience an erosion of feelings that one can exert control over one’s life outcomes.

(d) They are generally unhealthy.

 *(e) all of the above

(p. 85)

Chapter 4  Poverty and Disrepute

16) Manchester, Flaherty, and Mumford reported that stigma can be reduced when: 

     (a) people are educated about what it is like to be poor.

(b) role-playing is used.

(c) people stop using food stamps.

(d) poor people receive counseling.

*(e) welfare benefits are delivered electronically

(p. 86)

17) Which of the following is true about homelessness?

(a) Homelessness is not a specific social and economic category.

(b) The number of homeless is hard to measure for a variety of reasons. 

(c) Homelessness affects a relatively small percentage of the population.

*(d) all of the above 

  (e) none of the above

(p. 87)

18) According to Marmot, a long, healthy life and good health are related to all but:

(a) education

(b) income

(c) socioeconomic status

*(d) gender

(e) none of the above

(p. 88)

19) Which of the following is true, according to Marmot?

(a) We should think of income only as what one has.

*(b) We should think of income in two ways—one, how much one has, and two, what one has relative to what others have.

(c) The degree of income inequality plays no role in life expectancy.

(d) all of the above

(e) none of the above

(p. 89)

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20) Which of the following statements about race and poverty is true?

(a) Institutional racism is a thing of the past so there are other reasons that a substantial proportion of blacks are stuck at the bottom of the class structure.

(b) In the United States, race and poverty are not intertwined at all.

(c) Blacks and Hispanics are only marginally more impoverished than whites.

(d) Blacks earn 20% of what whites earn.

 *(e) Some scholars believe that the legacy of slavery continues to keep   demonized stereotypes in play.

(p. 92)

Essay Questions

1) Compare and contrast the different perspectives on stigma and poverty from Malthus to Wacquant.

2) What are some of the reasons for continued poverty and income inequality in the United States?  Why is rural poverty more extreme than its urban counterpart?

3) Based on your reading of the text and the different perspectives discussed, answer the question “Is poverty a form of deviance?”

4) Why is it difficult to get an actual accounting of the unemployed in the United States?  What are some of the issues faced by the unemployed in this country?

5) What role does race play in keeping people in poverty?