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  • Essay / Criticism of the current definition of poverty - 1325

    Our SSI text explains that "the poor react realistically to their situation", in other words, the poor have learned to live with their situation and therefore accept the fact that their values ​​are such because nothing more would be inaccessible to them (Kerbo, 2012). In this view of poverty, the reasons for poverty are not due to differences with the poor and the middle class, but to their situation. I agree more with this view of poverty than with the culture of poverty argument, because personally, I have the impression that most people in society are not content to be poor all together. their life. The situational view of poverty focuses on the social and economic circumstances that cause poverty rather than individual reasons, such as the attitudes, values, and behaviors of the poor seen in the culture of poverty view. poverty. There are certain times in some individuals' lives when they have to experience poverty, like after an injury or death in the family, they may experience poverty for a while, but it is not a trait acquired through