Sociological research over the past 30 years has tended to:
a. support culture of poverty explanations for the poor.
b. provide little if any support for culture of poverty theories.
c. ignore questions of what causes poverty to persist.
d. blame the poor for their situation.
Question 2
Theories that suggest that the poor have different values and attitudes toward work than more affluent Americans are called:
a. conflict theories.
b. differential association.
c. self-fulfilling prophecies.
d. culture of poverty theories.