FRHD 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Median Income, Human Resources Development Canada, Income Distribution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Some people still think there is a flawed character (lazy, not working hard enough). Lessons from the depression did not persist: no one single origin, multiple perspectives, multiple origins (maybe we should not have government assistance because it will increase their laziness versus providing them with opportunities rather than material objects). There is more than one factor associated with the onset and maintenance of poverty, every one will have different origins of poverty. Genetic versus environment factors, institutional factors (role in providing opportunities), random effects (storm, hurricane) Third world countries make up two-thirds of the world as a whole. Poverty: experience of material and social deprivation that prevents individuals, communities, and entire societies from reaching their full human and societal potential (townsend, 1993; raphael p. 6) Material and social components of poverty as you are not in the same social circles as others.