Deck 28: Lisa Dodson, Employing Parents Who Cant Make a Living From the Moral Underground:how Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Question 1

Lisa Dodson's essay, "Employing Parents Who Can't Make a Living" is based on her interviews with

A) disabled individuals who are not able to work.
B) people who work for a very low wage, generally less than $9 an hour.
C) individuals with responsibilities for dependents, such as children and aging parents.
D) managers and supervisors of low-wage workers.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Dodson ("Employing Parents Who Can't Make a Living") concludes from her research that

A) people should share jobs in order to insure that no one is unemployed if they want to work.
B) when people are treated unjustly, sometimes others break the rules and follow their own sense of moral responsibility to help them.
C) men should be encouraged to take paternity leave and be more willing to stay at home and take care of dependent children when their wives work outside the home.
D) many people live very disorganized lives, and this disorganization is often brought to the workplace.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

When Lisa Dodson ("Employing Parents Who Can't Make a Living") talks with her sociology students, she often asks them

A) if they are parents.
B) what problems they have when holding jobs and going to school full-time.
C) if, and why, a vast range of inequality matters.
D) if it is better to have a really good job you love and pays well, or if is better to have a healthy family and solid family life (but you can't have both).

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Lisa Dodson ("Employing Parents Who Can't Make a Living") found that

A) there is great discomfort, even anguish, for people who supervise low-wage workers.
B) many people have made decisions about their lives that cannot be reversed.
C) men tend to abandon their children and pay no child support when they become unemployed.
D) single women with children would be better off if there was no social safety net or welfare system, largely because welfare destroys their sense of self worth.