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    Indian Poverty

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    EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH ON POVERTY REDUCTION IN INDIA (STATE OVERVIEW) From 1974-2005 By Sagir Khericha ID:1053378 Contact Details: sxk978@bham.ac.uk‚ shagirk@gmail.com Topic Page number Abstract 01 Introduction 01 Literature review 03 Literature review Specific to India 07 Methodology 10 Empirical Findings 11 Conclusion 12 Appendix 13 References 13 ABSTRACT India has had an

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    Child Poverty

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    Child Poverty‚ Is there a Solution? Introduction Child Poverty has been an ongoing issue throughout the world for decades. We’ve seen it become a problem dating back the great depression‚ World War I and World War II. Also the problem of child poverty is a huge concern in other ends of the world. In this paper I will talk to you about child poverty at a glance fallowed by poverty levels in different places. Lastly I will touch on the Illinois and Chicago’s child poverty level. We all

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    COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY TOPIC: The conflict perspective views society less as a cohesive system and more as an arena of conflict and power struggles. Compare and contrast the main tenets of the functionalist and conflict perspectives. ANSWER: SECTION A Functionalists view society as a system of Social structures or subsystems working interdependently. In order for society to function‚ all parts of the whole must have a general consensus. Similarly‚ conflict theorists operate on

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    Child Poverty

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    Essay on Child Poverty: “Examine the characteristics and circumstances of children living in poverty‚ and assess the main responses of social policy towards improving their lives” Poverty is the greatest threat to the well being of children‚ it can affect every area of a child’s development social‚ educational and personal. There are currently 3.8 million children living in poverty in the UK according to (Barnardos 2011). The UK has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialised

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    Sociological Perspective

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    Sociology is the study of people and society. It provides the people who study it with the knowledge to understand different social groups‚ and the roles of the social activities that take place within them. This knowledge allows people to see past the way in which we commonly understand our world‚ and see things in a more objective manner‚ making it easier to explain society in an unbiased way (Holmes‚ Hughes & Julian 2003:2). Different theories‚ viewpoints and social facts help us to achieve this

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    Causes of Poverty

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    Ling 100 Causes of Poverty Poverty usually means one lacks the necessary for basic lives such as clean and fresh water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. Nowadays‚ it is not only a challenge for poor countries. American‚ the world ’s richest country‚ also has poverty problems. It is a huge issue for the whole world. To solve this problem‚ people should figure out the reasons behind poverty first. Poverty is very complex social problem. Causes of poverty can be multifarious

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    Functional Perspective

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    Explain how and why the Functional Perspective is the legitimating rationale (explanation or justification) for a Capitalist economy‚ and give examples of this justification through race‚ religion‚ class‚ gender‚ and educational level. Then‚ critique the Functionalist ideology from the Conflict Perspective and describe how the stratification system produces deviants (not criminals‚ but rather those who fall outside the expectations in actions‚ thoughts‚ appearance‚ credit-score‚ etc) and the result

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    IDS WORKING PAPER Volume 2012 No 391 War and Poverty Patricia Justino April 2012 Conflict‚ Violence and Development Research Cluster The Conflict‚ Violence and Development research cluster is part of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team at the Institute of Development Studies. The cluster’s main focus is to develop new insights into how people in contexts of conflict and violence live and interact‚ and what institutions best support them. We use our research findings to inform

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    Sociological Views of Poverty Michelle Williams-Thomas Sociology 101 Professor Yelena Gidenko February 12‚ 2012 At the beginning of the twentieth century‚ the most common reasons people died were accidents or communicable diseases like pneumonia. Today‚ millions die each day from poverty. How can poverty be defined? And what is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? In the paper I will address these issues along with sociological views of poverty. Poverty is a social

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    Sociological Perspectives

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    Sociological perspective is a way of looking at the world through a sociological lens (Ferris and Stein 9). Sociologists use sociological perspective as a tool to understand human life in society. The following practices may be helpful in understanding sociology and thinking sociologically. Structural Functionalism is a paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified whole that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures (Ferris and Stein 18). The Functionalist

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