This activity helps students revise key sociological explanations of the nature, existence and persistence of poverty in AQA A Level Sociology: Work, Poverty and Welfare. Students read short descriptions of theories, concepts and studies, then match them to the correct sociologist or perspective. In doing this, they strengthen their understanding of how different approaches explain poverty, including functionalist ideas about the functions of poverty and the culture of poverty, Marxist arguments about exploitation and capitalism, feminist explanations of the feminisation of poverty, New Right views on welfare dependency, and social democratic and Weberian perspectives on inequality and social exclusion. The activity works well as a starter, revision task or retrieval practice exercise, helping students become more confident in linking sociological names, concepts and explanations together.