4.2 Learning Objectives and Key Terms
Elizabeth B. Pearce
4.2.1 Learning Objectives
- Explain the concept of social welfare.
- Describe the components of social problems.
- Articulate the intersectionality between poverty, social identities, and social problems.
- Describe the social patterns and consequences of poverty.
- Compare and contrast social welfare programs and social insurance programs; give examples of each.
4.2.2 Key Terms
Under Construction!
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.