It Is 1970,and a Development Worker Hopes to Understand Mexican

question 46

Multiple Choice

It is 1970,and a development worker hopes to understand Mexican peasant families before intervening to improve their lives.This development worker reads Oscar Lewis's "The Culture of Poverty" and interprets peasant life according to Lewis's theory.What does the development worker conclude?

• A) Due to poor childhood nutrition and maternal care,peasants develop low IQs and,thus,poverty.
• B) Peasants make rational but self-defeating choices,passing poverty on to subsequent generations.
• C) Governmental repression and neglect can be seen in peasant faces,clothes,and bodies.
• D) Peasants parent their children poorly because adults work long hours far from home,thus creating social problems.

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Definitions:

Synthesis

The process of combining various chemical entities to form a more complex product, often utilized in the development of pharmaceuticals and various organic compounds.

Missing Reagents

The term used in organic chemistry to denote absent chemical substances required to carry out a specific reaction or synthesis process.

Michael Acceptor

A compound that can accept an electron-rich nucleophile, often characterized by an electron-withdrawing group adjacent to a carbon-carbon double bond.

Michael Reaction

A conjugate 1,4-addition reaction of a carbon nucleophile to an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound.