Answer to Question #311592 in Sociology for Thandiwe Shabangu

Question

Compare and contrast two theoretical approaches to poverty as a social problem in 300 words

Answer 1

Theories find the explanation for poverty in the traits of the poor themselves. These are, for instance, communalism, casteism, regionalism, poverty, gender discrimination, population, environmental imbalance . Second, problems of deviance having to do with the adjustment of people to conventional ways of living.