A-level
Sociology A-level:
Poverty
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Poverty
Definitions of poverty
Relative poverty
- Leading contenders
- Criticisms of Townsend
- Criticisms of Mack and Lansley
- Subjective poverty
- Criticism
- Checkpoints
Measuring poverty
- Measures
- Extent and distribution
- Class and poverty
- Gender and poverty
- Ethnicity and poverty
- Region and poverty
The underclass debate
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