1. Happy Easter

2. Welfare Provision
You are to work through the PowerPoint utilising your booklet and the we and construct your own answers into a PowerPoint.
List four types of welfare provision & identify the pros and cons.
How do factors like:
Class
Gender
Ethnicity
Affect these types of provision?

3. Universal Benefits - What are they?
What type of theorists are interested in these?
How can we link these to the ‘poverty trap’?

4. Beveridge Report
When?
Who?
What?
Evils?
Evaluation successful?

5. Welfare dependancy Who is Charles Murray? What type of theorist?
Who are the underclass?
What is the essence of his type of theory?
Use booklet and this link

6. The NEW RIGHT – it is a word fill thing
The New Right are a group of sociologists and politicians who value individuals taking responsibility for their own welfare, and who are against the state interfering in welfare. Although definitely not New Right (he died over a hundred years ago!) a good place to start is with Herbert Spencer, a Victorian sociologist who said that the poor were to blame for their own problems. Poverty was an individual issue, a matter of "poor character", or "poor moral fibre". Although there are the "deserving poor" who should be helped because they have fallen into poverty through no fault of their own (widows, orphans, war-wounded, etc), the "undeserving poor" have fallen below the poverty line because of their individual laziness and lack of talent. This relates to the idea of meritocracy: the able and hard-working rise to the top of society, whereas the idle and less able sink to the bottom. This is a conservative or right-wing argument, because it says that the state does not need to help those in poverty.
poverty line, Spencer, deserving poor, individual, not, blame, individual, poor character

7. CULTURE OF POVERTY- word fill
This has features in common with the New Right. You will remember that the culture of a society or group is the set of norms, values, and attitudes which it possesses and lives by. This theory says that "the poor" constitute a subculture who have different norms and values from the rest of society, and this subculture keeps them in poverty.
Norms, Culture, subculture, poverty

8. CULTURE OF POVERTY- word fill
Oscar Lewis is the main theorist here. He studied poor communities in Mexico and Puerto Rica, and found that they had a "design for living" which kept them poor. Their culture was passed from generation to generation (i.e. was intergenerational) and included features such as
Apathy (they can't be bothered to exert themselves)
Fatalism (they think that they can't affect their lives: "what will be will be".)
Immediate gratification (they can't delay their gratification or happiness - they will rather spend than save, get drunk rather than wait till friday, and sleep rather than go out to work).
These cultural attitudes lead them into poverty.
Mexico, Mexico , Lewis, Fatalism, Immediate gratification,

9. Marxism and Poverty
Utilise your booklet and this link to
Make four sides that bring the essence of their theory on poverty, wealth & welfare. Your booklet has concise summaries however you should also read more widely.

10. Web task
Turn to page 38 – left hand page and complete the web task using the links.