The myths of the poor created by George Gilder, Ralph Segalman, and David
Marsland characterized the entire poor population in a negative fashion. These myths depicted the poor as a lazy class of society unwilling to work and heavily reliant on the state as an income source. Through personal prejudices, they were able to create an elitist fashioned propaganda of the poor generating a negative viewpoint of the poor shared by the vast majority of society. Without the use of micro-level statistical evidence, these three men lead people to believe that the poor are poor because they refuse to work and that receiving welfare is believed by the poor to be an indefinite right rather than a short-term subsidy. They also lead people to believe that the offspring of poor families will become imprisoned within the welfare system with no way out. Instead of using welfare as a systematical approach to vocational rehab, the poor in general takes advantage of the welfare system and conveys an acceptance of dependency to the state as the norm. This in turn angers the general public and creates a misconception of the poor and the welfare system due to a macro-level approach conducted by these three gentlemen.
These misleading myths heavily influenced the general public's ideological perspective of the poor in a negative fashion. This negativity toward the poor creates personal …show more content…
Instead of using existing sources to acquire data, researchers may apply the participant observation research method to collect data and study the inner workings of the poor such as Joseph Edwoodzie did in 2012. This would give researchers a chance to see the social trends and family dynamics of the poor instead of relying solely on statistical data collected on a macro-level such as a Census
Marsland characterized the entire poor population in a negative fashion. These myths depicted the poor as a lazy class of society unwilling to work and heavily reliant on the state as an income source. Through personal prejudices, they were able to create an elitist fashioned propaganda of the poor generating a negative viewpoint of the poor shared by the vast majority of society. Without the use of micro-level statistical evidence, these three men lead people to believe that the poor are poor because they refuse to work and that receiving welfare is believed by the poor to be an indefinite right rather than a short-term subsidy. They also lead people to believe that the offspring of poor families will become imprisoned within the welfare system with no way out. Instead of using welfare as a systematical approach to vocational rehab, the poor in general takes advantage of the welfare system and conveys an acceptance of dependency to the state as the norm. This in turn angers the general public and creates a misconception of the poor and the welfare system due to a macro-level approach conducted by these three gentlemen.
These misleading myths heavily influenced the general public's ideological perspective of the poor in a negative fashion. This negativity toward the poor creates personal …show more content…
Instead of using existing sources to acquire data, researchers may apply the participant observation research method to collect data and study the inner workings of the poor such as Joseph Edwoodzie did in 2012. This would give researchers a chance to see the social trends and family dynamics of the poor instead of relying solely on statistical data collected on a macro-level such as a Census