Exam 7: Social Class: the Structure of Inequality

Drew Westen,in "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the fate of the Nation," argues that when advocates of health-care reform talk about universal health care as a way to help "the uninsured" or "the underinsured," they turn many people against universal health care because there is an underlying assumption that poor people are getting what they deserve.What do sociologists call this assumption?

Several members of the Indian government have argued that poverty in India should be calculated according to how many calories per day people consume,not in relation to their incomes.What sort of measure of poverty would this be?

Who acted kindly toward John Coleman when he went undercover as a homeless person and lived on the street for ten days?

Being born into a lower social class means that an individual will be more likely to:

Which of the following population groups are associated with higher rates of poverty in the United States?