SOC 102 Lecture 3: Chapter 7 part 1
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Poverty a standard of living below the minimum needed for the maintenance of adequate diet, health and shelter. -these impoverished are discriminated against in the schools, the courts, the job market and many become trapped as a result. Most of the poor are impoverished for structural reasons, not personal ones. -the essence of poverty is inequality (of opportunity and money: extent of poverty, p. 156, official poverty line established in the 1960s by the ssa a. i. Based on the minimal amount of money required for a subsistence level of life a. i. 1. What is the cost of a basic, nutritionally adequate diet and multiplied that figure by 3 a. i. 2. See criticisms of this measure, p. 156: supplemental poverty measure (spm) 2010, an interagency technical working group began developing guidelines for spm b. i. Takes into account food, clothing, shelter and utilities b. ii. Used to supplement the official poverty measure (opm) b. ii. 1. b. ii. 2.
