Poverty, deprivation and oppression

Question 1

The poor in history

Answer 1

Old English Poor Laws- These were late medival tudor laws 1500s, the idea was that people in poverty could receive outdoor relief. Poverty was a nuisance

Punitive View of Poverty: a nuisance to society- People were called drunken and sinful

Question 2

What did welfare used to consist of

Answer 2

Local Parishes and Charity

Question 3

Who is Robert Owen and what did he do

Answer 3

Robert Owen was the founder of socialism.
He improved the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities.
Helped create the New Poor Law 1837

Question 4

Contemporary Geographies of Deprivation

Answer 4

London riots- around a culture of poverty and a sense of entitlement. Realted to ethnicity and stop and searches.

Question 5

Three theories of deprivation

Answer 5

• Culture of poverty
  Problems arising from internal pathology of deviant groups. Eg. worklessness is passed through generations
• Institutional malfunctioning
  Problems arising from failures of planning, management or administration of services.

- Maldistribution of resources and opportunities. 
Problems arising from an inequiable distribution of resources. A source of structual class conflict and inequality.

Question 6

Peter Townsend views of poverty

Answer 6

1979 ‘ when people lack the resources to participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or are at least widely encouraged or approved, in the societies to which they belong.

Question 7

Characteristics of absolute poverty

Answer 7

Clean water
Sanitation
Shelter
Clothing 
Food
Health

In the UK the Government defines ‘absolute poverty’ in comparisaon to the median in 2010/11.

Question 8

5 Faces of oppression from iris Marion Young 1990

Answer 8

• Exploitation
  The act of using peoples labours to produce profit while not compensating them fairly.
• Marginalisation
  Is the act of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.
• Violence is the intention to damage, humiliate or destroy a person or group.

- Cultural imperialism
Involves taking the culture of the ruling class and establishing it as the norm, thus controlling how the people in that society interpret and communicate

• Powerlessness
  Is the lack of authority, status and sense of self which would permit a persona to be listened to with respect