Comparing and Contrasting Sociological Terms: Absolute Poverty and Relative Poverty

COMPARE AND
CONTRAST
SOCIOLOGICAL TERMS
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
AND RELATIVE POVERTY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Comparing and contrasting the Relative and absolute poverty...................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Sociology is related to the learning of institution and human social relations. It tells the
behaviour of humans and the hold of societal influence over it. This is an important study as it
provides a great understanding on the reasons that lie behind the social differences, difference in
the behaviour of people, differences in the opportunities given, relevance of the social power and
the social hierarchies. Study of Racial issues, gender dynamics, feelings and phenomena around
the entertainment, different structures of the social institutions and also the development of
various social movements are some examples of sociology. Here, this report will be comparing
and contrasting the two of the sociological terms namely: relative poverty and absolute poverty.
MAIN BODY
Comparing and contrasting the Relative and absolute poverty
Absolute poverty is defined as the poverty, when the income generation of a household
comes beneath certain level and worsen the condition of the family. This condition also makes
the family to beg for the basic requirements such as the shelter, drinking water, healthcare,
education and even food (Zheng and et.al., (2022)). There are also many cases responsible for
the absolute poverty such as the unavailability of the jobs, daily life conflicts, lack of
infrastructures, advances in the agriculture field, poor education of the children and mental
health of a person by which the one is not capable enough to earn a good living for the family.
The unavailability of the jobs is also one factor which is leading to the increase of unemployment
rate (Song and et.al., (2022).). Thus, the families are becoming more dependable on the society,
whereas, the relative poverty is referred to the poverty where one person and the family is able to
fulfil the basic requirements of the family by providing a good shelter, food to survive and a
good health but, it is not able to actively participate in the society and derive benefits from those
experiences and activities. It is typically a lack in context to the income generation that is needed
in the society to maintain a standard lifestyle (Decerf, (2020)). There are also many causes of this
kind of poverty such as, unemployment, inequalities in context to the labour market and the poor
health issues, where the unemployed people are not able to fulfil the daily needs, the unhealthy
ones are not able to earn a good living and the inequalities such as the racial issues in the labour
market which even affect the wages of the people working in the field.
Comparison Basis Absolute Poverty Relative Poverty