What is meant by culture of poverty?
Anthropologist Oscar Lewis used the term “culture of poverty” in 1966 to describe the phenomena of people living in long-term, chronic poverty adapting to the conditions and perpetuating the poverty from generation to generation. The culture of poverty defines the culture of those who live in generational poverty as having similar characteristics including feelings of powerlessness, low education attainment and low employment aspirations.References:”A Partial Test of Oscar Lewis’s Culture of Poverty in Rural America”; Cultural Anthropology; David B.
