Reimagining Poverty Through Social Contextual Analyses - Finding New Ways to Understand Getting By

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on original research and shows how understanding life contexts can give us a deeper understanding of the issue.

List of contents

01 | How to Help those in Poverty

02 | What is Poverty?
03 | Psychology of Poverty?
04 | The Contexts of Poverty
05 | The Experiences of Poverty
06 | Pathways in Poverty
07 | Discourses in Poverty
08 | Why We Have Not Solved Poverty

About the author

Eden Thain is a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, and a member of the Social Contextual Analysis of Human Behaviour Research Group.

Summary

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on original research and shows how understanding life contexts can give us a deeper understanding of the issue.

Product details

• Authors: Eden Thain
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032592817
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3259281-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, REFERENCE / Research, Poverty & unemployment, Social, group or collective psychology, Social discrimination & inequality, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Poverty and precarity, Research methods: general, Social discrimination and social justice