Absolute Poverty - a situation in which someone lacks the money to pay for the food, clothing and housing necessary to maintain a healthy way of life
Relative Poverty - a situation in which someone can't afford to possess the kind of things and participate in the kind of activities considered by members of society to be a normal part of life
Social Exclusion - when people are unable, or feel unable, to play a full part in society. This may be owning to a lack of material resources, discrimination by others or a sense that the rest of society neither wants nor respects them
Environmental Poverty - deprivation experienced in neighbourhoods that are ugly, dirty, unsafe and which lack adequate services and amenities
Relative Deprivation - felt when people compare their own situation to that of others whom they believe to be unfairly better off than them
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