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Theorizing Poverty of Culture: Requiem for Change

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This chapter mainly seeks to demythologize the culture of poverty (CoP) as formulated and practiced by social scientists, policy makers, and social welfare/work practitioners during the last five decades. Human-social development is an outcome of the nature-nurture nexus as transmitted by culture. Poverty is a product of systemic inequalities sustained by a predatory culture. As argued, it’s PoC rather than CoP that retards progress even in the advanced states of social development. Transformative social policy is viewed as a vehicle of progressive change that is vital to achieving social democracy, free from ideological dogmas of power.

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Mohan, B. (2011). Theorizing Poverty of Culture: Requiem for Change. In: Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117655_1

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