Sociology / Unit 6 Soc 0855 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Explaining Poverty
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The idea
Explanations of poverty divide between those emphasizing individual and cultural factors and those emphasizing structural conditions such as labor markets and housing.
In practice
The same neighborhood supports both accounts, depending on which evidence is examined.
Where people slip
Per this course's neutrality convention, the strongest form of each is presented and neither is adjudicated.
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