The 'culture of poverty' theory, developed by Oscar Lewis, suggests that poverty is the result of what?
Explanation
This question tests the definition and core argument of the 'culture of poverty' theory, which the chapter presents and critiques as a common but flawed explanation for poverty.
Other questions
What term do anthropologists use for societies that are based on sharing resources to ensure group success and have a relative absence of hierarchy and violence?
According to Karl Marx's analysis of class struggle, what fundamental resource did the proletariat lack?
Max Weber's analysis of class differed from Karl Marx's by adding which two key factors to the consideration of class stratification?
What concept, developed by Pierre Bourdieu, refers to the self-perceptions, sensibilities, and tastes that are developed in response to external opportunities and constraints and shape one's conception of the world?
What is the primary argument of Leith Mullings's Harlem Birth Right Project regarding the drivers of inequality?
What is a key difference between income and wealth as measures of economic stratification?
In the context of the Indian caste system, what does the term 'dalit' refer to?
The ethnography 'Poor Economics' by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo challenges the 'culture of poverty' theory by arguing that the poor are what?
What is social mobility, according to the chapter's discussion of class?
In the case study of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the decision to switch the city's water source was primarily driven by what factor?
What is the primary characteristic of a ranked society?
The theory of intersectionality, as applied by Leith Mullings, is best described as a framework for analyzing what?
In Gregory Mantsios's analysis of class in the United States, what common myth does he challenge?
What is a key function of the caste system in India as described in the chapter?
How did the apartheid system in South Africa institutionalize inequality?
What is the primary focus of the 'Social Life of Things' feature on landfills and waste?
According to the chapter, what is the main reason why access to clean water is a marker of class inequality, as seen in both Flint and Mumbai?
Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'social reproduction' refers to which phenomenon?
What is a major critique of the 'culture of poverty' argument?
A person's opportunities to improve their quality of life and achieve their goals are referred to by Max Weber as what?
The ethnography 'Sidewalk' by Mitchell Duneier, which studies street vendors in New York, demonstrates what about their economic lives?
What is a key aspect of a ranked society like the one found among the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest, known for their potlatch ceremonies?
According to the chapter's discussion of wealth distribution in the United States, what percentage of the nation's wealth is controlled by the top 1 percent of households?
The transition from caste to class in rural South Asia, as discussed in the chapter, is largely being driven by what force?
What does Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital' include?
In a ranked society, social rank is often determined by what factor?
Which of the following is presented in the chapter as a primary factor driving the invisibility of class in U.S. society?
The chapter uses the case study of the water crisis in Mumbai to illustrate what global dynamic?
Which of the following best describes the anthropological position on whether inequality is a 'natural' part of human culture?
What is the primary role of a chief in the ranked societies described in the chapter, such as those that practiced the potlatch?
Karl Marx argued that the surplus value created by workers' labor was being expropriated by which group?
According to the chapter, what is one of the main consequences of the 'culture of poverty' ideology for social policy?
What does the term 'dalit' mean in the context of the Indian caste system?
The study of the SFL (St. Louis for Food and Land) landfill shows how global consumerism creates what?
Which theorist argued that social and class relations are passed from one generation to the next through social reproduction?
In the United States, what is the relationship between income and wealth distribution?
What is a 'reciprocity,' as practiced in egalitarian societies?
What did the analysis of the former apartheid system in South Africa reveal about the relationship between race and class?
In Max Weber's framework, what does 'prestige' refer to?
The chapter argues that poverty is not just a matter of low income, but also a lack of what?
What is the primary method used by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in 'Poor Economics' to understand poverty?
In the context of class in the U.S., what does the chapter identify as a major factor in the perpetuation of poverty?
What does Katherine S. Newman's ethnography of the working poor reveal about their relationship with the American dream?
What is the primary reason the chapter gives for why anthropologists view the caste system in India as a system of stratification?
According to the analysis in the chapter, which group in the United States has seen a decline in their share of national income over the past four decades?
In the analysis of inequality in South Africa, what legacy of apartheid continues to shape class stratification today?
Which classical theorist of social class is most associated with the concept of the 'means of production'?
What is the key idea behind the 'Your Turn: Fieldwork: Ten Chairs of Inequality' exercise?
How does the chapter define 'class' in an anthropological context?