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CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE OF POVERTY

    2 Author(s):  MRS. RAJESHWARI. C.B, PROF. M.H. KRISHNAPPA

Vol -  7, Issue- 12 ,         Page(s) : 90 - 99  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The term poverty was used long before social sciences conceived the idea of dividing society into different compartments and came up with the concept of social stratification. Poverty is a vague and value loaded concept. Consider the term ‘poverty’ as explained in Random House Dictionary1as “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support”. Similarly, Valentine (1968)2 refers to poverty as “a condition of being in want of something that

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