Sociological focuses on the structure and organisation of society and how this relates to social problems and their individual lives. Much theories is directed at understanding social change, throughout history its rarely talked about poverty as such, but insights into economic ordering and structure of society offer valuable ideas for understanding poverty. In the 1970s and 1980s it revolved around the relative importance of social structures and individual agency in explaining the prevalence and perpetuation of poverty over time. The social and political propensity mark out some people as being somehow responsible for their own hardship has a long history. Many reasons particular ones being popular and political ones emphasises on supposedly underserving poor citing individual behaviours or moral failings as key causes of poverty.
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The close association made between poverty and individual behaviours means that it can sometimes be difficult to disentangle poverty from related issues such as employment or receipt of the welfare. Successive governments have landed work as the best route out of poverty but changing face of labour market and work itself means that employment is no longer a guaranteed passport away from
The close association made between poverty and individual behaviours means that it can sometimes be difficult to disentangle poverty from related issues such as employment or receipt of the welfare. Successive governments have landed work as the best route out of poverty but changing face of labour market and work itself means that employment is no longer a guaranteed passport away from