The Culture of Poverty: Oscar Lewis

Poverty culture is a theory introduced by Oscar Lewis and is defined as "a specific conceptual model that positively expresses the subculture of Western European society, its own structure and basic idea, way of life." (Lewis, p.19) This concept helped shape the liberal discourse of the 1960s and their lifestyles are still trapped in poverty because they are interfering with their low socio-economic status I assert. Social Mobility

The term "subculture of poverty" (later abbreviated as "poor culture") is used in the ethnographic magazine Oscar Lewis "5 Family: Case Studies in Mexico in Poverty Culture" (1959) . it's the first time. Lewis strives to make the "poor" a legitimate subject, and his life changes for poverty. This tendency to plant attitudes and beliefs when you are born in the culture of poverty and poverty can keep living like this. When things improve, I feel that it is difficult for many people to adapt to a new life. They will rather stay in the hut because they feel they are not fit for a better residential area.

Poverty culture was originally developed by anthropologist Oscar Lewis (1959, 1961). In his study of the societies of Mexico and Puerto Rico, Lewis hopes to understand poverty in a cultural context, I would like to understand how the poor adapt and cope with poverty. The same is the process of socialization. In other words, adults consider poverty as a series of objective conditions (such as long-term unemployment effects, low wage rates, etc.) and deal with people working, working people, people with disabilities, and others. The fact that they live in poverty and the facts in the process of giving this knowledge to children (those who live outside the range of poverty give them the same knowledge that their children have accumulated) It is giving). Therefore, the continuation of poverty can be explained by the way socialization of the next generation of each generation occurs.

Oscar Lewis (1966) and Daniel Patrick Moinihan (1965) will report on the black family. Lewis believes that persistent poverty will create a series of cultural attitudes, beliefs, values, and practices that will last for a long period of time, even under the structural conditions that caused this change. Moynihan believes that black families are caught up in a series of chaotic morbidity arising from the cumulative effect of slavery and the subsequent structural poverty that is characteristic of many African Americans ( Banfield 1970).