Q4 - Week 4 Flashcards
State in which resources, usually material, but sometimes cultural are lacking.
Poverty
The lack of resources of some people in relative to those who have more.
Relative Poverty
Refers to a lack of resources that is life threatening.
Absolute Poverty
Refers to feature of social organizations such as networks, norms, trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
Social Capital
Refers to the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige, or recognition.
Symbolic Capital
Refers to the goodwill that politician policy can build up with the public through the pursuit of popular policies.
Political Capital
The impotent poor (people who can’t work) were to be cared for in almshouse or a poorhouse. The law offered relief to people who were unable to work: mainly those who were “lame, impotent, old, blind.”
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
The able-bodied poor were to be set to work in a house of industry. Materials were to be provided for the poor to be set to work.
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
The idle poor and vagrants were to be sent to a house of correction or even prison.
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
Pauper children would become apprentices.
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
statutory procedure or social effort designed to promote the basic physical and material well-being of people in need.
Welfare
a government program, funded by taxpayers, that provides financial aid to individuals or groups which cannot support themselves.
Welfare
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
Poverty
Said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.
Poverty
a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food couple with the desire to eat.
Hunger
