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In six pages this paper examines poverty from a social perspective with a discussion of the phenomenon as a social construct, considering causes, individual and structural theories, and possible remedies. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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contend that a social problem is ultimately defined by the society that is suffering the problem. One definition is that a social problem is "any situation which is regarded
by a significant number of the members of a group as a threat to one or more of a groups basic values and which is believed to be remediable by
collective action" (cited in Segalman & Basu, 1981, p. 40). As a social problem, poverty is regarded as something that is preventable or can be resolved (Segalman & Basu,
1981). However, in America, poverty has existed from the earliest settlement days and continues to grow in the civilized hi-tech society of the twenty-first century. PART I: Poverty as
a U.S. Social Construct (Problem) The media emphasizes the poverty issues of lesser-developed countries, but statistics support evidence that the United States - widely considered the most developed nation in
the world - has comparable poverty problems. According to the United Nations Development Program rankings, the U.S. has "a higher poverty rate than any developed nation" (Beckley, 2007, p.
46). The U.S. Census bureau confirms this finding, stating that the poverty rate has grown steadily during the new century to 12.7 percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley
(2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty line - the number of Americans currently living in poverty are in double-digits, representing 13 percent of
residents and nearly 18 percent of children (p. 46). This poverty line was first drawn or conceptualized by Social Security Administration economist Mollie Orshansky back in the 1960s (Spriggs,
2006). It refers to pre-taxable household income that focuses on cash and not federal government assistance programs (like food stamps or housing subsidies (Spriggs, 2006). Why is poverty
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