ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Oscar Lewis, Lewis Acids And Bases, Social Exclusion
4 Dec 2017
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3 billion on less than per person per day. 1. 2 billion people are estimated to still live on less than per person per day, and almost. 110 million primary school age children are out of school (60% of them are girls) 31 million people are infected with hiv/aids and many more live without adequate food, shelter, safe water, and sanitation. He states that being in poverty tends to create a way of living that becomes a culture of its. This culture is learned, shared and socially transmitted as a behaviour of a social group . Oscar lewis saw people living in this culture as a separate part of society. He stated that the urban poor make little use of institutions such as banks, hospitals, In this way, lewis argues that the poor segregate themselves from mainstream society. By the time slum children are aged 6-7 they have absorbed the values and attitudes of.
