“The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay for All” * Herbert J. Gans Poverty is a persistent social phenomenon. A functional analysis (Robert Merton) of poverty may explain positive functions as to why such phenomenon continues to persist‚ as seen by Herbert J. Gans’ study‚ “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay for All”‚ which expresses thirteen positive functions of poverty and further expresses its consistency with the functionalist perspective. In society‚ everything goes hand in hand‚ the rich need
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Poverty affects 3 million Canadians including approx. 634 000 children Poverty in Canada increased to 9.6% in 2009 13.3% of Canadian children in poverty‚ have low paying job or be unemployed in 2012 Racialized groups/immigrants are more likely to be in poverty Increased in poverty to 1.3 million children in 2012 from 1.0 children in 1989(increase by 23%) Poverty costs $72-94 billion for Canadians In 2012‚ 872‚ 379 Canadians used food banks (23% increase since 2008) 3.1 million households pay more
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Fight Poverty Many people here in the United States‚ are forced to live a life in poverty. Poverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. There are people who want to help the poor‚ but no one knows exactly how to help them. Those who are against poverty agree that something needs to be done‚ but they do not know how to go about getting things done. A primary reason for people not taking action is because of lack of information that is provided
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Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past four decades‚ the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China‚ Indonesia‚ Thailand‚ and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles‚ and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across
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Poverty occurs in most parts of the world. Nevertheless‚ the more serious and problematical poverty takes part in the third world and the southern parts of the globe. First of all‚ we have to clearly define the word “poverty”. In a broad sense‚ it means that people within this “poverty” region are poor or have a lower average income per capita than other regions. To a deeper approach‚ we refer “poverty” as people have low educational backgrounds‚ lack of food supplies‚ or people with lower
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once said‚ “Poverty is the worst form of violence” he wanted to raise awareness for the struggles of poverty. Millions are suffering‚ to this day‚ from this heartbreaking epidemic. The real problem lies in the fact that poverty can be eradicated‚ by putting our minds and resources towards this cause. The number of those in poverty has been increasing every year. Poverty is something that is affecting every country in the world‚ no matter how big or small‚ rich or poor. Eradicating poverty should be
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Criticisms of Durkheim: -Assumes societies have a shared culture which can be transmitted through the education. In fact Britain is now multicultural‚ and therefore can we base school curriculums on one single culture. -New Right and New Labour perspectives on education have tended to emphasize the economic importance of education and have downplayed the significance of transmitting a shared culture. -Some researchers question whether in practice schools do act in the way that Durkheim describes
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Poverty alleviation programmes in India - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_alleviation_programmes_in_India Poverty alleviation programmes in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Contents 1 Jawhar Gram Samridhi Yojna 2 Employment Assurance Scheme(EAS) 3 National Old Age Pension Scheme(NOAPS) 4 National Family Benefit Scheme(NFBS) 5 National Maternity Benefit Scheme 6 ANNAPURNA 7 Integrated Rural Development programme 8 Rural Housing-Indira
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Critically evaluate the functionalist perspective on education (20 marks) Functionalist’s perspective on education is based on the consensus theory of equality. They tend to believe that education helps to maintain society by socialising young people with the value of achievement‚ competition and equality of opportunity. Education also teaches the skills to help the economy. For example‚ literacy‚ numeracy and IT for particular occupations. Role allocation is all part of this; education allocates
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with the rising problem of poverty. It is estimated that about 38% of the population live in severe poverty (Poverty Bulletin‚ 2005‚ p.9). According to the poverty reduction strategy for Namibia (1998‚ p.1) Namibia is among the most dualistic countries in the world both geographically and economically. Most of the population is situated in the northern regions of the country‚ where majority of the people depend on agriculture as a means to sustain their lives. Poverty in Namibia‚ is a very serious
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