Drew Westen, in "The Political Brain: the Role of Emotion

Multiple Choice

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?

A) disenfranchisement
B) the just-world hypothesis
C) the blame-the-victim syndrome
D) class consciousness
E) the invisibility of poverty