Cultural Explanations
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- Cultural Explanations
- The Culture of Poverty
- Oscar Lewis, New Right
- Mexico and Puerto Rico
- The poor have a 'culture of poverty' with its own norms and values.
- This separates the poor from the rest of society
- The culture is transmitted from generation to generation through socialisation
- He suggested that the poor have cultural features.
- Resigned to their situation
- They have a sense of fatalism
- They are reluctant to work
- Don't plan for the future.
- Make little effort to change their situation
- Dependency Culture
- David Marsland
- Poverty arises from the generosity of the welfare state.
- The New Right sees many of the poor as undeserving
- Those that depend on the welfare state become lazy and undermine the production of wealth
- Calls the welfare state the 'nanny state'
- Universal benefits undermine the production of wealth.
- The Underclass
- Charles Murray
- Suggests that there is a class beneath the working class.
- Calls the welfare state the 'nanny state'
- They socialise their families to be dependent on the state.
- The attitudes and behaviours of the poor of why they are in poverty
- The poor form an anti social deviant underclass.
- The generosity of the welfare state has created and encouraged the underclass.
- The Culture of Poverty
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