Oscar Lewis was the first to suggest that, because the poor are excluded from mainstream social life, they develop a way of life with fundamentally different values and goals. This makes it much less likely that they will ever join the middle class. What is this way of life usually called?

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Oscar Lewis was the first to suggest that, because the poor are excluded from mainstream social life, they develop a way of life with fundamentally different values and goals. This makes it much less likely that they will ever join the middle class. What is this way of life usually called?

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The culture of poverty

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Oscar Lewis was the first to suggest that, because the poor are excluded from mainstream social life, they develop a way of life with fundamentally different values and goals. This makes it much less likely that they will ever join the middle class. What is this way of life usually called the culture of poverty.

Oscar Lewis coined the culture of poverty in 1961 to explain why people are poor, this theory states that living in conditions of poverty will lead to development of a culture attitude, belief, value adapted to those conditions and that this culture of poverty would tend to perpetuate itself over time, even if the economic conditions that originally gave rise to it were to change.