Understanding Poverty and Gender Structures

These flashcards cover key concepts related to poverty, cultural and structural theories, as well as gender identity and societal expectations.

Cultural Behavioral Theories

Theories suggesting that poverty results from individual choices and behaviors within a cultural context.

Bootstrapping

The ideology that individuals can improve their socioeconomic status through hard work and self-reliance.

Subculture of Poverty

A concept by Oscar Lewis arguing that the poor develop a distinct set of values and behaviors that perpetuate poverty.

Structural Economic Theories

Theories that suggest poverty arises from systemic barriers, economic structures, and social contexts beyond individual control.

Institutional Discrimination

Policies and practices within institutions that systematically disadvantage certain groups based on race, gender, or socio-economic status.

Concentrated Poverty

A condition where a significant proportion of the population living in a specific area experiences extreme poverty.

Moving to Opportunity Program

A policy initiative aimed at providing housing vouchers to help low-income families move to neighborhoods with better economic opportunities.

Gender as a Social Structure

The view that gender is a system that organizes social life, influencing roles, opportunities, and expectations of individuals based on perceived gender.

Intersectionality

An analytical framework that examines how various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, and gender, overlap and impact experiences of inequality.

Gender Binary

The classification of gender into strictly two distinct and opposite forms, male and female.