Is poverty relative or absolute?
Is poverty relative or absolute?
A social problem is a condition or set of events that some people in society view as being undesirable. A social problem has been defined as a situation confronting a group or a section of society that inflicts injurious consequences that can be handled only collectively. Drug abuse, alcoholism, poverty, population explosion, terrorism, pollution, environmental degradation, unemployment, etc are some of the social problems.
It is only in the second half of the 20th century that poverty and the poor have come to be matters of our concern and obligation. Poverty is a situation that gives rise to the feeling of a discrepancy between what one has and what one should have. Poverty is not only a condition of economic insufficiency, it is also social and political exclusion. Thus poverty has been related to the prevailing socio-economic structure of the society. Experts on poverty have broadly used two approaches. First the nutritional approach. Here poverty is measured on the basis of the minimum food requirements. The second, the relative deprivation approach. Here poverty is seen in terms of relative deprivation of a section of the population against the pre-developed sections.
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