the uses of poverty: the poor pay all

Activities flourish because of poverty; examples would be anything considered a number game like the sale of heroin, cheap liquors and wines, prostitutes, pawnshops, and a group called Peacetime Army (this group only enlists poor men). For example, how the poor buy goods others do not want and thus prolong the economic usefulness," is an ingenious way to put the unique situation that is addressed in this essay. The article was generally easy to read, with most words being those that one would typically use in everyday life, and rarely getting to a more academic level. Poverty attacks everyone, it doesnt see gender, color, or religion., With regards to hooks work, she explains that though she had grown up in a poor community, she never actually saw herself or her family as poor. Instead, Junior views poverty as something incredible difficult to overcome, a condition that simply reinforces itself. But it is absolutely not the case that all societies would have to be so unequal that there is a class of individuals with markedly and consistently more or less power, wealth and influence. Furthermore, there are many ways inequality places itself in America. To answer the poverty concerns integrationists know in which the scar brought by poverty can be terminated. It is a method of how efficient is our function and to be able to work more. I shall use a slightly differ) Tj 342 0 TD 0.0091 Tc -0.1046 Tw (ent definition; ) Tj -342 -11.52 TD 0.0393 Tc -0.0899 Tw (instead of identifying functions for an entire social system, I shall identify them for the interest ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD -0.0286 Tc 0.1731 Tw (groups, socio) Tj 58.56 0 TD 0.0833 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.36 0 TD 0.0387 Tc -0.0688 Tw (economic classes, and other population aggregates with shared values that 'inhabit' ) Tj -61.92 -11.52 TD 0.0499 Tc -0.0854 Tw (a social system. Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; savings and checking accounts; microinsurance; and payment systems, among other services. Sage Reader: "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All"; "Unequal Childhoods" The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All Main Point: Poverty has remained stubbornly on the American landscape Article relies on functionalist perspective to explain why poverty is so hard to get rid of having a group that is poor serves any useful social functions Not arguing that poverty is good, but arguing . . If this is done, then there would be a social dysfunction because of the amount of money required. I believe that if someone does not want to live that lifestyle, they do not have to. From a sociological perspective there are reasons why poverty exists today and continues to do so. View Notes - The Uses of Poverty - The Poor Pay All from SOCIOLOGY 290 at Rutgers University. The fact that half of his essay is antagonizing the poor is something that should be thoroughly observed. I shall use a slightly different definition; instead of identifying functions for an entire social system, I shall identify them for the interest groups, socio-economic classes, and other population aggregates with shared values that 'inhabit' a social system. This is a summary from a sociology assignment based on the functions of poverty. There have been many success stories about people from poor dirt whove made it past the point of some people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Poverty may resist elimination because society needs it for its own security and well being. Next, Herbert J. Gans' essay, "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All", is extremely important in the analysis of the frontline documentary. Poverty helps to guarantee the status of those who are not poor Its up to him to make his poverty a boon or bane. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are crying out for help to speedily address the growing poverty before it forever distorts the US democracy, values and economic future., "Poverty." Some twenty years ago Robert K. Merton applied the notion of functional analysis to explain the continuing though maligned existence of the urban political machine: if it As a result, the Democrats can count on their ) Tj T* 0.0326 Tc -0.0082 Tw (votes, and ) Tj 48.24 0 TD 0.0394 Tc -0.0869 Tw (be more responsive to voters ) Tj 130.32 0 TD 0.0833 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.36 0 TD 0.0425 Tc -0.1037 Tw ( for example, the white working class ) Tj 164.4 0 TD 0.0833 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.36 0 TD 0.0468 Tc 0.0176 Tw ( who might ) Tj -349.68 -11.52 TD 0.0262 Tc 0.0222 Tw (otherwise switch to the Republicans. ) You are being graded on your ability to look at poverty from a functional perspective, keep this in mind as you respond. 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Gabriella's discussion of obesity from the standpoint of different ethical cultures in the U.S. and Europe is very interesting. Although Gans is using satire to poke playfully at the rich for looking down upon the poor, I conceived from it that both sides need to open their eyes. hooks contends that it basically boils down to the fact that society and the government have the responsibility to intervene in changing the way that everyone looks at poverty, and should provide opportunities for the poor to meet and help each other. In addition, some poverty is so extreme that someone has to live outside and under a bridge with their clothes in a shopping cart and some poverty is where you cant get food, shelter, and education, and medical assistance when they need it. Other roles would have to be found for badly trained or ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0303 Tc -0.0778 Tw (incompetent professionals now relegated to serving) Tj 225.6 0 TD 0.0406 Tc -0.0881 Tw ( the poor, and someone else would have to pay ) Tj -225.6 -11.28 TD 0.0383 Tc -0.1139 Tw (their salaries. Gans has a bit of a different approach on poverty and the poor. They, The structural-functionalist view of poverty suggest that a certain amount of poverty has positive functions for society. The rich often collect artifacts from extinct folk cultures of poor people; and almost all Americans listen to the blues, Negro spirituals, and country music, which originated among the Southern poor" (p.22, Pp3). This is particularly true for the ) Tj ET endstream endobj 16 0 obj 8274 endobj 14 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 5 0 R /Resources << /Font << /F1 8 0 R >> /ProcSet 2 0 R >> /Contents 15 0 R >> endobj 20 0 obj << /Length 21 0 R >> stream The major costs of the industrialization of ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0459 Tc -0.0964 Tw (agriculture have been borne by the poor, who are pushed off the land without recompense; and ) Tj T* 0.0557 Tc -0.1313 Tw (they have paid a large share of the human cost of the ) Tj 236.4 0 TD 0.0513 Tc -0.1468 Tw (growth of American power overseas, for they ) Tj -236.4 -11.52 TD 0.042 Tc -0.0775 Tw (have provided many of the foot soldiers for Vietnam and other wars. ) Tj 149.52 0 TD 0.0453 Tc -0.0972 Tw (An economy based on the ideology of laissez faire requires a ) Tj -149.52 -11.52 TD 0.0336 Tc -0.0691 Tw (deprived population that is allegedly unwilling to work or that can be considered inferior because it ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0457 Tc -0.1412 Tw (must accept charity or welfare in order to survive. I suspect that in a mode) Tj 178.56 0 TD 0.035 Tc -0.062 Tw (rn heterogeneous society, few phenomena are functional ) Tj -178.56 -11.28 TD 0.0418 Tc -0.0706 Tw (or dysfunctional for the society as a whole, and that most result in benefits to some groups and ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0389 Tc -0.0864 Tw (costs to others. . To Junior, poverty is generational, it is an inherited condition, and it is not a choice. If the poor were to be affluent, then they could take over the roles of others. Microfinance services are designed to reach excluded customers, usually . We have upper, middle, and lower class; within each class there are sub categories (upper-middle class, middle-lower class, etc.). If they grew up poor and all they know is poverty. They provide the rest of the population with emotional satisfaction. This will result to positive, Since, in his analysis, it is the poor themselves that are to blame for their poverty, because they either choose to act in a certain way, or are conditioned to do so by over-generous government welfare, the policy solutions that flow from this analysis are,, A crucial controversy of America today is the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor, and the discrepancy is caused by capitalism run wild and only the helping hand of the government can only fix the problem. Then According to symbolic interactionism, social class affects how people interact in everyday life and how they view certain aspects of the social world. (Lardbucket.org 2012)This means that they believe that poverty depends on social class. The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All.) Tj 235.2 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj -235.2 -11.28 TD ( ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.0443 Tc -0.0974 Tw (Fourth, the poor buy goods others do not want and thus prolong the economic usefulness of such ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0152 Tc -0.1107 Tw (goods ) Tj 29.52 0 TD 0.0833 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.36 0 TD 0.2326 Tc -0.3282 Tw ( day) Tj 18.48 0 TD 0.0833 Tc 0 Tw (-) Tj 3.36 0 TD 0.0389 Tc -0.0744 Tw (old bread, fruit and veg) Tj 101.28 0 TD 0.0379 Tc -0.0268 Tw (etables that otherwise would have to be thrown out, ) Tj -156 -11.28 TD 0.044 Tc -0.0995 Tw (secondhand clothes, and deteriorating automobiles and buildings. They have supported the consumption and investment or the private economy by virtue of the low wages they receive. Submitted On April 04, 2007. These negative stereotypes often fill people with a stigma of being or becoming poor. Poverty is a major concern not only in our society but as well as societies all over the world. When poor people is put on welfare, they have a hard time to find jobs they wanted with good wages. All of her arguments are completely opinionated, as she states in paragraph one and six that her statements are of her own feeling and admittedly based on no evidence. She demonstrates this in the first paragraph by first questioning the all-to common phrases the deserving poor and poor but honest. Phrases that Andrews associates when thinking about the poor., Poverty is a significant issue in our world today where many cannot afford the basic necessities to stay alive. Tj 71.28 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj -71.28 -11.28 TD ( ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.0438 Tc -0.1093 Tw (Alternatives for the cultural functions of the poor could be found more easily and cheaply. In conclusion, some people can move up in status, while some cant., It doesnt really attack the rich, but suggests that they would likely be able to donate more of their fortions at relatively little actual expense to them. "The poor pay more for a gallon of milk; they pay more on a capital basis for inferior housing," says Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.). In order to help the less fortunate out he has to create a program to help the poor succeed. The poor not only helps provide jobs for the upper and middle classes. Now in days, television shows and movies depict the poor as people with no ambition, no dignity, people who cannot be happy with themselves while living in poverty. He states that the underprivileged in essence have kept several vocations in existence such as social work, criminology, and journalism. These vocations serve the double pretense of aiding the less fortunate and . This analysis is not intended to ) Tj -119.28 -11.04 TD 0.0291 Tc -0.0646 Tw (suggest that because it is often functional, poverty ) Tj 222 0 TD /F3 9.84 Tf 0.0886 Tc 0 Tw (should) Tj 29.52 0 TD /F1 9.84 Tf 0.0166 Tc 0.0319 Tw ( exist, or that it ) Tj 67.2 0 TD /F3 9.84 Tf 0.0092 Tc 0 Tw (must) Tj 21.36 0 TD /F1 9.84 Tf 0.0284 Tc -0.0759 Tw ( exist. A functional analysis (Robert Merton) of poverty may explain positive functions as to why such phenomenon continues to persist, as seen by Herbert J. Gans' study, "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay for All", which expresses thirteen positive functions of poverty and further expresses its consistency with the functionalist perspective. Tj 320.16 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj -365.76 -11.28 TD ( ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.0472 Tc -0.1256 Tw (Merton defined functions as "those observed consequences [of a phenomenon] which make for the ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0451 Tc -0.1222 Tw (adaptation or adjustment of a given [social] system." However, it is ) Tj -240.96 -11.28 TD 0.0426 Tc -0.075 Tw (true that if the poor were more affluent, they would have access to enough capital to take over the ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.037 Tc -0.0525 Tw (provider role, thus competing with and perhaps rejecting the "outsiders." Stephen Crane was known for his work in Naturalism, Impressionism, and Realism, in a time of Romanticism. A question that turns the tables is what if the growing wealth disparity in America is actually caused by the government? And not only that, Singer does also state that the burden shouldnt be only that of the lavishly rich, but also that . Approximately 1.2 billion people live in poverty and go to bed hungry every day. Every society has such work: physically dirty or dangerous, temporary, dead-end and underpaid, undignified and menial jobs. As horrible as it may sound, I usually, unconsciously think that anyone that works in any low wage job must be in some state of poverty. It can change the way they look at life and everyone else around them. The poor also provide incomes for lawyers, teachers, doctors, and other people who are either too old, incompetent, or poorly trained to attract the more wealthy clients/patients. In Herbet Gans "The Uses of Proverty: The Poor Pay All" we can use his insight to explain poverty in America and how social theories can be used to understand modern social issues (Gans, 1971). It allows for better things and more advantages than not having money. In the article entitled "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All," sociologist Herbert J. Gans discusses the strange alliance between the poor and the wealthy in American society. They will not attempt to develop their way of life or aim for success. commonly known to profit from the existence of poverty, but viewed as evil men, so their activities are classified among the dysfunctions of poverty penology, criminology, social work, public health respectable professions and occupations that poverty makes the existence or expansion possible poverty warriors, journalists, social scientists Merton defined functions as "those observed consequences [of a phenomenon] which make for the adaptation or adjustment of a given [social] system." Tj 408.96 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj -408.96 -11.28 TD 0.0447 Tc -0.112 Tw (The status functions of the poor are another matter. This statement may seem to be pessimistic, but it actually can refer to two sociological predictions. The Uses Of Poverty: The Poor Pay All Herbert J. Gans There is much more to poverty than having to "tighten your belt". #HOW DO I JOIN THE OCCULT. Tj 396.48 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj ET endstream endobj 13 0 obj 9125 endobj 4 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 5 0 R /Resources << /Font << /F0 6 0 R /F1 8 0 R /F2 10 0 R >> /ProcSet 2 0 R >> /Contents 12 0 R >> endobj 15 0 obj << /Length 16 0 R >> stream Poverty is well-known throughout the world; poverty may affect anyone who lives from month to month pay check. Indeed, ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0319 Tc -0.0932 Tw (entertainers, hippies, and adolescents are already serving a) Tj 261.84 0 TD 0.0348 Tc -0.0104 Tw (s the deviants needed to uphold ) Tj -261.84 -11.52 TD 0.038 Tc -0.1164 Tw (traditional morality and as devotees of orgies to "staff" the fantasies of vicarious participation. ) 500 words (minimum) and respond to at least 2 other people's posts in 4 senstences minimum. "The poor and 100 million who are struggling for the middle class actually end up paying more for transportation, for housing, for health care, for mortgages. The popular view on poverty has always been that poor people are poor because they are lazy, but it is not true and David Shipler was going to reveal the truth about them. Tj 96 0 TD 0 Tc -0.0955 Tw ( ) Tj -96 -11.28 TD ( ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.0414 Tc -0.0769 Tw (Third, poverty creates jobs for a number of occupations and professions that serve or "service" the ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0406 Tc -0.0828 Tw (poor, or protect the rest of society from them. In the article entitled "The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All," sociologist Herbert J. Gans discusses the strange alliance between the poor and the wealthy in American society. No one has come up with fundamentally new ideas just sticking with the myths of the past. Humanity Salvation and Humanity Ego - A Realistic Approach to Saving an Ego-Dominated Planet, Analysis of Herbert J Gan's "The Uses of Poverty", https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Kathy_Henry/70029, http://ezinearticles.com/?Analysis-of-Herbert-J-Gans-The-Uses-of-Poverty&id=515327. Last updated:November 30, 2020 "The uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All," was enlightened to read about the social phenomenon of poverty that I had never come across. and teaching about the ethical issue posed by the juxtaposition . No signup or install needed. He bluntly got his point across in his novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, he was able to make everyone else aware of what was going on. For example, how the poor "buy goods others do not want and thus prolong the economic usefulness," is an ingenious way to put the unique situation that is addressed in this essay. The main reason for poverty is that the poor have to pay more with less salaries., In the article The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All written by sociologist Herbert J. Gans addressed the poor and the poverty and how they function and benefited our society within sociological perspective. Indeed, this function of the poor is s) Tj 290.16 0 TD 0.0454 Tc 0.0511 Tw (o important that in some ) Tj -290.16 -11.28 TD 0.0352 Tc -0.0508 Tw (Southern states, welfare payments have been cut off during the summer months when the poor ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.034 Tc -0.0872 Tw (are needed to work in the fields. There could be ideological or moral reasons to object to a growing gap between the wealthy and the rest but for economic reasons, there are no such. Recently they have enjoyed the rock styles that were born, ) Tj 0 -11.28 TD 0.0338 Tc -0.0226 Tw (like the Beatles, in the slums, and in the last year, poetry written by ghetto children has become ) Tj 0 -11.52 TD 0.0649 Tc -0.1604 Tw (popular i) Tj 37.92 0 TD 0.0423 Tc -0.0928 Tw (n literary circles. Its a relevant subject today in 2015 as it was in Stephen Cranes time in 1893. 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