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Controversial educational psychologist Ruby K. Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, distinguishes between situational poverty, which can generally be traced to a specific incident within the lifetimes of the person or family members in poverty, and generational poverty, which is a cycle that passes from generation to ...
A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with detrimental results. [1] It is a system with no tendency toward equilibrium ( social , economic , ecological , etc.), at least in the short run.
Lerner also describes his surprise at hearing his students derogate (disparage, belittle) the poor, seemingly oblivious to the structural forces that contribute to poverty. [5] The desire to understand the processes that caused these phenomena led Lerner to conduct his first experiments on what is now called the just-world fallacy.
Despite its flaws and limitations, the War on Poverty thrust the needs of millions to the center of the national stage, and research about poverty, program experimentation, and innovation in ...
Family homelessness is a complex issue that affects hundreds of families in the Coastal Empire and it disproportionately affects families of color.
Vicious generational cycle: Young people say they can’t work because of mental health problems — and being jobless is worsening their mental health. Here’s what’s going on.
Through this a sort of cycle is born in which the "dimensions of poverty are not merely additive, but are interacting and reinforcing in nature." [ 23 ] According to Arjun Appadurai (2004) , the key to the environment of poverty, which causes the poor to enter into this cycle, is the poor's lack of capacities.
Cyclical downswing is a feature of an advanced stage of sustained growth rather than of the vicious cycle of poverty. Hirschman also stated that during conditions of slack activity in developed countries, the stock of resources, machines and entrepreneurs are merely unemployed, and are present as idle capacity.