CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Poorhouse, Content Analysis, Medicaid
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Not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing, and shelter. Deprivation of basic human needs-- food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care, education. Contextual definition-- economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. Intially included legislation about banking, labor, agriculture, alcohol (prohibition) Social security: widowed, dependent children, elderly, and disabled. Acknowledge racial inequality but did not address equal rights. Social security excluded jobs held largely by blacks: agricultural and domestic workers. Did not directly challenge residential segregation or labor market discrimination. Government program guaranteeing benefit to members of a specific group and based on established rights or by legislation. Determination of whether person/family is eligible for government assistance, based upon whether they possess means to do without that help. Instrumental in creating notion of culture of poverty: Culture of poverty evolved into a "blaming the victim" Anthropologist who studied poor families in several settings, 1950s-
