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student77 · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Identify the official poverty line and differentiate between absolute poverty and relative poverty.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Schools are responsible for teaching values such as discipline, respect, obedience, punctuality, and perseverance. Schools teach conformity by encouraging young people to be good students, conscientious future workers, and law-abiding citizens. This illustrates which manifest function of education?

a. socializationb. transmission of culture
c. social control d. social placement

ebenov · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The U.S. Social Security Administration has established an official poverty line, based

on the minimum amount of money required for living at a subsistence level. The

poverty line is computed by determining the cost of a minimally nutritious diet (a low-

cost food budget on which a family could survive nutritionally on a short-term,

emergency basis) and multiplying this figure by 3 to allow for nonfood costs. Absolute

poverty exists when people do not have the means to secure the most basic necessities

of life. Absolute poverty often has life-threatening consequences, such as when a

homeless person freezes to death on a park bench. By comparison, relative poverty

exists when people may be able to afford basic necessities but are still unable to

maintain an average standard of living.

Answer to Question 2

c