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Evaluate different sociological approach to the definition of poverty The definition of poverty is the centre of a farce debut. This is if the definition is ‘absolute’ or ‘relative’ poverty. The farce intensity of this debut became prominen ....

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.... has very definite views on this matter. They feel that the people are only poor if they lack the things that are needed for life. This is food, water, clean air and shelter; this is ‘absolute’ poverty. In this model very few people within our society are defined as in poverty and only the third world countries have a large amount of the population that are defined as within poverty. The view of the new right is that the work is out there for the poor to build their way up out of poverty but they are to lazy to do so. Most sociologists of developed industrial countries are more inclined to that of the ‘relative’ poverty as ....