Some People Argue That What Keeps People Poor Is Not

question 14

Multiple Choice

Some people argue that what keeps people poor is not public policy or some other systemic failure, but a set of attitudes, values, and beliefs that do not promote mainstream societal values about self-sufficiency and independence. This largely disputed perspective is known as

• A) a structural attribution.
• B) fatalism.
• C) a culture of poverty attribution.
• D) postmodernism.

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