The idea of poverty

By P. Spicker. 2007

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Part one: Understanding poverty: Defining poverty Poverty in different societies Understanding the figures Part two: Poverty as material need: Concepts of need Area deprivation Part three: Poverty as economic position: Economic resources Class Part four: Poverty and social relationships: Social exclusion Dependency Poverty and politics Part five: Poverty as a moral concept: The moral dimensions of poverty The moral condemnation of the poor Part six: Explanations for poverty: Why people are poor Why poor countries stay poor Part seven: Responses to poverty: Responding to poverty Policies for poverty.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Advancing an energy justice perspective of fuel poverty: Household vulnerability and domestic retrofit policy in the United Kingdom (2017, background): “Situating child poverty within the family unit and its place in wider social structures has helped develop a body of knowledge that highlights how children are affected by different forms of deprivation and why [126,26,127,56].”
• Disability and Poverty: A Conceptual Review (2011, background): “People living on a dollar per day are estimated to spend about 70% to 80% of their income on food (Spicker, 2007).”