Sociology Work Poverty Welfare notes

THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF POVERTY

.Early sociological research aimed to disprove the fact that poverty was the poor's own fault- for years it had been claimed that the poor were scroungers who had done  nothing to seek self suffiency.

Two peices of evidence disprove the assumptions, and prove that those in poverty were good hardworking people.

1. Booth's labour and life of people of…