MCQs of Sociology – Poverty,Social,Exclusion and Welfare

Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004?

Which of these is not a critique of attempts to measure relative deprivation?

Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept?

Put these stages in the evolution of citizenship in chronological order.

Which of these countries has the largest number of people living on less than $1.25 a day?

Which of these countries has the smallest proportion of people living on less than $1 a day

Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that.

Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because.

Children living in poverty tend to be more likely.

Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of households below 60 per cent of median income?

Which of these is not an example of social exclusion?

The notion of citizenship rights is associated with.

Which of these constitute the three worlds of welfare-capitalism?