[SOCI 102] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (43 pages long)
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1 de ning poverty: when people lack, or are denied economic, social and cultural resources to have a quality of life that sustains and facilitates full and meaningful participation in the community. Transitional poverty: when poverty is temporary or short-term because of a disruptive event in the life of an individual, family, or a community. Or because of a vulnerability that can be directly addressed and ameliorated: death of bread winner in family, natural disasters, people can think that once the problem has been xed, poverty wont be a problem anymore. Thinking people get what they deserve of work for: chronic poverty: when poverty is persistent. A continuous spell of low income lasting 10 years or more is caused by a combination of many factors beyond the individual, family or communities control: more complex reasoning than transitional poverty. Intergenerational: when conditions of poverty are passed on.
