Poverty Info
- Created by: Jess
- Created on: 11-09-15 18:17
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- Getting to grips
- Key info
- poverty - metaphorical - cancer; kill life & society
- sociology; cancerous body & soc - how intense, how affected. Wrong medicine = wrong effect. Normal medicine or alt. medicine
- revol. movements fight each other not the disease
- gap between theory and praxis (practice)
- importance of epidemeology; causes, who, what, when etc.
- poverty - metaphorical - cancer; kill life & society
- Who's poor?
- Generalizations = imp of definitions - categorize - can't intervene or analyze w/ relativity w/o precision
- Person: lack/insufficient/ adeq- food, shelter, medical care, clothing, income ..
- how to define?
- variability in geog & people; food caloric intake (U.S), shelter - diff kinds of shelter, how long exp these things, retrospectively e.g, if long - incl in poor category
- New WB - $730 definition of adeq. variation - median income for family of 4 US $22,440, Alaska is $30,000 + (adj for living costs)
- May 1965, one yr after Johnson admin. 'war on poverty' Molly Orshansky poverty thresholds: formula =
- cost of all goods & servies to reproduce our bodies, e.g. by food - caloric intake, - focus on physical body. U.S discourage P
- Talk about money? Indig population of nearly every country w/ indig people = poorest group
- gov gives them money - change culture? econ's say are poor, anthropol. say living tradit. Strike balance? Work through problem
- Nothing is relative; there is a problem - how to deal with them
- how to define?
- Choice
- choice conseq - when do people supress making more? look at econ - money could of earned whilst at uni & debts
- Agency: choosing their own situat
- internal diff; some sit's may be temporary
- Other ways to define
- defint incl causes of poverty condition itself?
- measurement of structural constraints be part of definition? cultural; e.g prohibit making money, R
- Differentiate constraints; who's driving it!?
- culture_> insitution _>culture
- different ethnic groups - honor/respect cultures. /
- honor cultures: (bestowed honor at birth, easily lost, will guard honor
- respect cultures; can get honor back v. easily
- Economics
- Econ = about scarcity; allocate scarce resources who, what when...
- Think about each country & how they invest in people.
- Individual choice & pubic choice
- Aim
- Start applying knowledge learn - use it - how to apply theories; explain why some people are poor
- Key info
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