What Statistical Reality About Older People Today Tends to Support

question 36

Multiple Choice

What statistical reality about older people today tends to support the perspective promoted by conflict theory in the 1980s?

• A) Low poverty rates among the elderly are a fact today.
• B) There are high poverty rates among black and Hispanic unmarried older women.
• C) Social conflict between the elderly and other age groups has lessened considerably.
• D) The elderly have increasing opportunity to remain active members of society.

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