SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Working Poor, Meritocracy, Social Stratification
Document Summary
Standard of living below the minimum needed for the maintenance of adequate diet, health, and shelter. Arbitrary line computed by multiplying the cost of a basic nutritionally adequate diet by three; based on minimal amount of money required for a subsistence level of life. Viewed erraneously as a trend for contemporary women to be more economically vulnerable than men. This view obscures the fact that women have always been poorer than men, especially older women and women of color. Counties in the united states where more than 20 percent of the people live below the poverty line. Areas in the united states where more than 40 percent of the people live below the poverty line. Poor who are displaced by new technologies or whose jobs have moved away to the suburbs, to other regions of the country, or out of the country. They have less hope of escaping poverty than did the old poor.
