HLST 3510- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 58 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Poverty has a way of killing your system. Practical viewpoint: poverty = bad health, leads to poor economic performance and productivity. Political science viewpoint: bad things happen when the society is out of wack. Overall: the overall effects of poverty, not having things that society believes are basic necessities, being socially and systematically excluded from opportunities that are open to wealthy people. In the 1980s, tv entered the debate, changed everything: not able to afford basic necessities, what are necessities, heating (many people can"t afford this) Social exclusion: unable to participate in a normal activity that most people take for granted, leisure activities. 2 major ideas discussed: the issue of poverty vs inequality. If you see the problem as only as poverty, you concern yourself with the individuals: this is demonizing people - implying that its their own fault they are in poverty. The focus on poor people plays out in the forms of programs: child benefits programs, training programs.
