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How social scientists define and study poverty has changed greatly over the last 50 years.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed

March 12, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 2

by Paul Spicker There are times when social scientists simply get hold of the wrong end of things. When Charles Booth did his research on poverty, he was mainly interested in describing the things that […]

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