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

A. Stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
B. Rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
C. Fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
D. Rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion

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 ?

A. Primary/secondary
B. Weak/strong
C. General/specific
D. Old/new

Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

A. It concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. The government should be raising benefit levels
C. In modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. It is wrong to make comparisons between countries

Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?

A. To be killed in road accident
B. To have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
C. To live in male-headed households
D. None of the above

Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by_____________?

A. Domesticating its content including more home-produced programmes
B. Controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes
C. Creating reverse flows of their own programmes back to imperial societies
D. All of the above

The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of______________?

A. Cyclical theory
B. Unilinear theory
C. Multilinear theory
D. Conflict theory

The division of labor among physicians into obstetricians’ internists surgeons and so forth is an example of the process that Talcott Parsons called_______________?

A. Differentiation
B. Value generalization
C. Inclusion
D. Adaptive upgrading

Which sociological perspective minimizes change ?

A. Functionalist perspective
B. Conflict perspective
C. Interactionist perspective
D. Each of the above

The term vested interests was coined by social economist______________?

A. William f. oghurn
B. Talcott parsons
C. Auguste comte
D. Thorstein veblen

The abbreviation “NIMBY” stands for “not in my backyard” a cry often heard when people protest____________?

A. Landfills
B. Prisons
C. Nuclear power facilities
D. All of the above