Author: haroonkhan
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Poverty Line
The concept of Poverty line is also used here, but in a somewhat different sense. We know that this line differs from country to country depending upon the definition and the criteria used to delineate it. For making international comparisons, the World Bank decided to use US $1 (PPP)6 a day as the demarcation line: families spending one…
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MEASURING POVERTY CONCEPTS AND METHODS5
While there is a world-wide concern about the growth and spread of poverty, and an acknowledgement of its existence in practically all countries, developed or developing, capitalist or former socialist, there is no unanimity as regards its definition. People regarded poor in a given country may be considered rich when measured by the yardstick of…
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HOW TO IDENTIFY THE POOR?
The key question for social scientists is to evolve a methodology for identifying the poor, and another for indexing poverty. To quote Amartya Sen: the requirements of a concept of poverty must include two distinct—but not unrelated—exercises, namely (1) a method of identifying a group of people as poor (‘identification’); and (2) a method…
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POVERTY WITHIN A NATION: THE POOR REGIONS AND THE POOR FAMILIES
As was said before, all regions and nations, whether rich or poor, have their population divided between rich and poor in comparative terms. For measuring poverty among the people, the unit is the family, and not caste or community. Each caste or community is stratified, according to its norms, into various socio-economic classes. Such classes…
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POVERTY OF NATIONS
The international concern on poverty is expressed in terms of development. The nations of the world are classified as Developed, Developing, Underdeveloped, and Least Developed countries. Priority in terms of international assistance is given to the Least Developed countries or the LDCs, as they are supposedly on the lower rungs of the development ladder. In…
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Introduction
All societies distinguish between the rich and the poor. Both of these are relative terms. One is considered poor compared to the rich in one’s society. A rich person in a poor society may be regarded as poor when compared with the members of another society, which may be richer. Sociologically, it is significant to…
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UNESCO, Paris, July 1950
Lastly, biological studies lend support to the ethic of universal brotherhood; for man is born with drives toward co-operation, and unless these drives are satisfied, men and nations alike fall ill. Man is born a social being who can reach his fullest development only through interaction with his fellows. The denial at any point of…
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Index of Status Characteristics (ISC)
In collaboration with Marchia Meeker, Warner developed the Index of Status Characteristics (ISC) to determine the SES of individual families, when the sample size is large and EP cannot be used. The Index is based on two propositions: After carefully examining the correlation between several variables associated with SES, as indicated by EP, these authors finally settled…
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Evaluated Participation or EP
Evaluated Participation or EP ‘is posed on the proposition that those who interact in the social system of a community evaluate the participation of those around them, that the place where an individual participates is evaluated, and that the members of the community are explicitly or implicitly aware of the ranking and translate their evaluations of…
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CLASS
So far we have discussed the identifiable groups whose membership is defined by the fact of birth. These are Race, Tribe and Caste. We now move to discuss a social category called Class which is open—through achievement, people can enter a new category. Achievement is used here as a neutral word—a person can achieve success or…