Sociological Aspect of Poverty

Currently, more than 35 million U. S citizens, approximately 14% of the entire population live in poverty. Social norms in customarily rural-based cultures normally support the value of big families. The aspect of immigration has greatly worsened the issue of poverty. Despite poverty allowing society's dirty work to be done, assisting the affluent employees in reaching their career goals and objectives thereby creating a number of jobs, the social causes of poverty outweigh the positive impacts. There is the existence of stereotypic explanation that the deprived usually cause their own poverty. This is basically founded on the perception that everything is possible in some countries such as the United States of America. In some occasions, several theorists have blamed the deprived of having little or no concern for their future but prefer living for the time being.

In some other situations, a great number of theorists have accused the poor of engaging in self-defeating behavior. Moreover, another class of theorists has tried to characterize the poor as fatalists who have resigned themselves to a philosophy of poverty in which there is nothing that might be undertaken in order to alter their economic outcomes. Currently, more than 35 million U. S citizens, approximately 14% of the entire population live in poverty. In America, other estimates in regard to poverty range between 10% to 21%. This is why numerous sociologists prefer a relative rather than an absolute connotation of poverty. Notably, relative poverty is a situation where the poor are the persons lacking what is required by a great number of America citizens to live decorously since they receive less than 1/2 of the state's median revenue.

It might result from a high populace density or from low extents of resources or even both. A populace that is extremely high tends to pressurize the available resources since the resources could only support a given number of persons. The aspect of poverty might also depend on the nation's mix of population density as agricultural productivity. A large population might engage in low productivity farming practices thereby contributing to the county's high poverty levels. Such a state is common in developing countries that lack advanced technologies to meet their population basic needs. Due to this aspect, many people do not or see very little reason for going to school. A research carried out in Yemen implied that 41% of the country's rural populace survives on less than 2 dollars daily.

Also, 85% of the country's deprived populace live in rural regions where about 47% of its population are uneducated and this leads to high incidences of poverty. Moreover, the aspect of immigration has greatly worsened the issue of poverty. The United States of America is one of the nations that immigrants come to. In American, society has impeded that whites are dominant and therefore every other race is termed to be inferior. Other races apart from the whites have issues while earning jobs and a fair amount of pay. In this connection, many employers would not hire employees because of their diverse race or other pay them less amounts because of their skin color. This discrimination increases the incidence of poverty among other races that are considered inferior in society.

Accordingly, from a sociology perspective, Alex Thio points out that society is responsible for the creation and maintenance of poverty. The skepticism concerning the role of government is evident in neoclassical theory through market failures. For instance, credits unions are viewed as potentially treasured from the pure commercial point of view. This is because credits union are able to overcome the protagonist of the moral hazard in loaning to poor people. This issue of the moral hazard results in the limited convenience of credit and high social costs. The neoclassical theory typically agrees in utmost practical scenarios a goal of full pay equality. This is because of providing access to the resources which were not available (Deardorff, 2011). Thus, it enables the people living with poverty to buy or receive free goods.

Through this approach, the chief appeal of the monetary dimensions of the scarcity is that well-being can be enumerated as the total ingesting of the individual by either the income or expenditure data. The poverty is demarcated as the shortfall below the lowest level of the possessions given by the explicit poverty line. The most notable feature of the poverty conceptualization is the credence that it is impartial by the fact it is founded on the external valuation. The housing is the asset which is valuable and it is less liquid thus ineffective in the event of coming across income shock (Szyszka, 2011). The people living with poverty find it difficult to save hence may lack bank accounts which discriminates them in financial markets.

To reduce the asset poverty, an individual must implement the individual development account which matches savings account to the people living with poverty. People experiencing poverty requires that they are provided with access to low-cost credit markets which is capable of protecting them against the income shock. This situation will enable them to self-reinforce the process of accumulating the assets thus leading to a sufficient level of wealth in case they experience income fluctuation (Deardorff, 2011). These factors result in inadequate savings. People living with the poverty believe that the education returns are low at low levels hence keeping their children away from school when it is even is free. The issue of setting up businesses, choosing good nitration and birth control amongst the poor may improve their wealth (Davis & Sanchez-Martinez, 2015).

However, this approach has a criticism of the undertaking the individual hitches rather small incomplete as compared to the comparative terms. The mismatch of the skills in the labor market is related to market failure especially for low-income earners. The other approach is the immigration and ethnic minority group. The people from minority ethnic groups were generally low-income households (Foulkes & Schafft,2010). This may be due to the discrimination or the attitude towards education. Immigrants may be susceptible to poverty as compared to the natives. The immigrants find it difficult to secure jobs and the entitlement to the state benefits as with natives. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Deardorff, A. V. Rich and poor countries in neoclassical trade and growth. In Comparative Advantage, Growth, And the Gains from Trade and Globalization: A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V Deardorff (pp.