Cycle of deprivation

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

Culture of poverty leads to cycle of deprivation as poverty of parents is passed onto children

Question 2

Factors

Answer 2

Rutter and Made found variety of factors creating cycle of disadvantage:
Children who are victims of the cycle lack cultural capital

Physical environment puts them at a disadvantage, lack of study space

More likely to suffer from ill health and poor diets

Question 3

Criticisms

Answer 3

Most people who live in poverty are actually in work

The poor are not content to live on benefits

Poor are not always fatalistic and marginalised

Wrong to poor have a different culture to the rest of society, Coates and Silburn found that poor have the same norms and values as the rest of society but lacked opportunities to put these values into operation