The Culture of Poverty

Poverty is primarily a result of interrelated factors, including parental employment status and earnings, family structure and parent education. People raised in a specific class learn certain thought patterns, social interactions and cognitive strategies that often remain with the individual through adulthood. Schools and businesses operate from middle class norms and use (but don't teach) the hidden rules of the middle class (Pearson, 2003: 6).

Today, if you are born poor, there is a high probability that you will grow up to be poor. The exceptions are rare when measured against the ideals of social progress in which our society believes (Held and McGrew, 2000). Charles Lemert pointed out that oppressed people actually having the ability to understand their situations often fail to do so. Many people do not see clearly that the society and its structures are the cause of their problems -- this inability to see social things is call

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