Abstract
The present study explores the social and economic dimensions affecting the poverty culture existing in the slum areas of Karachi, Pakistan. The significance of the study highlights the major causes of hindrance in community development poverty and lack of social indicators-which are becoming a culture of the people as their value system along with feelings of powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, social exclusion, and self-estrangement in their group relations. This is a qualitative as well as an exploratory research that highlights the emergence of poverty culture in Pakistan for which the researchers have developed an idiographic model to identify the major variables of poverty culture. The researchers in the present study provide the positive and constructive counter-narratives and recommendations against myths about the culture of the poor people. In the present study, researchers have used facts and figures from the United Nations and World Bank Report of Poverty Reduction.
Highlights
Poverty reduction is an overwhelming challenge which is the basic concerned for the development of all social indicators (food, clothing, shelter, life expectancy, education, The Sociological Study of the Emergence of a Culture of Poverty (Social and Economic Dimensions) Discussed with Reference to Pakistan health services, security, clean potable water, environment)
The goal attainment of these social indicators is the challenging intervention for community development
Poverty includes the lowest income earners with lack of access to basic social and economic resources. They can improve the quality of living standard through increasing their education. The availability of these social indicators enables the general masses to escape from the culture of poverty
Summary
No one can see the problems of people living in poverty, just like visually impaired persons. The lower-class people have no job security so they are engaged in multiple jobs, whereas the upper class is skilled with one permanent job. —Poor man, Pakistan
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