4.2 Learning Objectives and Key Terms

Elizabeth B. Pearce

4.2.1 Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the concept of social welfare.
  2. Describe the components of social problems.
  3. Articulate the intersectionality between poverty, social identities, and social problems.
  4. Describe the social patterns and consequences of poverty.
  5. Compare and contrast social welfare programs and social insurance programs; give examples of each.

4.2.2 Key Terms

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Key terms are important vocabulary for understanding the content of the chapters. They will be bolded and defined via an in-text glossary the first time that they appear in the chapter.

  • Absolute approach: a way of defining poverty that designates a basic subsistence income level (the absolute version of a poverty line) and anyone who falls below that line is considered poor
  • Developmental approach
  • Houselessness
  • Individualism
  • Institutional view
  • Intersectionality: race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and other aspects of identity are experienced simultaneously and the meanings of each identity overlaps with and influences the others leading to overlapping inequalities
  • Personal troubles: a problem affecting individuals that the affected individual, as well as other members of society, typically blame on the individual’s own personal and moral failings
  • Poverty: the state of lacking material and social resources needed to live a healthy life
  • Poverty gap: measures the difference between the poverty line and the actual income level of the average poor family
  • Poverty line: a calculation that assumes people spend about ⅓ of their budget on food; taking the most frugal diet that the Department of Agriculture has recommended as potential bases for family food budgets and multiplied it by three.
  • Public issues: see definition for social problem
  • Relative approach: a way of defining poverty considers a person poor when their income is much lower than the typical income in that population
  • Residual view
  • Social Insurance programs:a group of programs that take into account any contributions that the beneficiary has made to the program and may be considered preventative in nature.
  • Social problem: any condition or behavior that has negative consequences for large numbers of people and that is generally recognized as a condition or behavior that needs to be addressed (also known as public issues)
  • Social welfare programs: a group of programs meant to alleviate the effects of poverty, and applicants must pass a means test in order to receive benefits.
  • Sociological imagination: the ability to understand individual experience within the context of social structures.
  • Welfare

4.2.3 Licenses and Attributions for Learning Objectives and Key Terms

4.2.3.1 Open Content, Original

“Learning Objectives and Key Terms” by Elizabeth B. Pearce is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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