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Deprivation and Social Exclusionapter 8, such a simple expression of poverty is essential if we are to measure its extent in a particular society at a particular time. However what this is in effect doing is basing the conception of the problem of poverty on a static monetary measure. It is reducing our understanding of poverty to

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Gender and Povertyussed in Chapter 7. Even when individual income is used, measurement tends to treat all individuals similarly as recipients of income without comparing their different circumstances or obligations. Insofar as this is explained or justified, and generally it is not, the assumption is that whilst inco

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Racism and Povertyd cultural differences. In modern British society this involves recognising and analysing the impact of racism within the social structure. In broad terms modern Britain is a racist society in that there is significant evidence that black and other minority ethnic communities experience discriminati

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Ageing and Poverty age. Indeed a major feature of Rowntree’s (1901, 1941) seminal studies of poverty in York was his notion of the ‘life-cycle’ changes in the risk of poverty, as discussed in Chapter 7. Rowntree identified three periods in the life cycle when there was an increased risk of poverty: childhood, parenth

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Social Security Policyerty or prevent it from occurring. The politics of poverty, therefore, is effectively the politics of antipoverty policy; and just as the politics of poverty can be traced back to the development of industrial society, so too can antipoverty policy. What such a historical review reveals is that thro

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