This paper describes an alternative to the currently dominant empirical research approaches to poverty in poor countries (econometric analyses of household surveys and 'participatory poverty assessments') based on cutting edge developments in mainstream sociology. Using ideas generated in the ‘critical realist’ tradition I propose that the study of the production, reproduction and reduction of ...

Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence of syntactic structure. We build on this work by introducing a model of language acquisition based on the Minimum Description Length Principle. Our experiments show that compositional syntax is most likely to occur under two cond...

Several factors influencing rural-poverty in sub-Saharan-Africa, for all the factors, agricultural-land access/management and “culture of poverty” are quite dominant literature. This study examines socio-cultural/economic poverty establishes linkages heterogeneity land-use systems. Farm-level cost–route surveys cross-sectional national-data 800 respondents were used analysis. Data analyzed by d...

This paper examines the impact of social and cultural factors on malaria control in rural Thailand. It contends that standard vertical malaria control programs tend to ignore local workplace and living conditions instead of recruiting traditional practices into the planning scenario for more effective control. Careful attention to these practices in the context of local economic capacity can se...

abstract a poet, author, statesman, and eminent social figure under the ottoman empire, ma'ruf rosafi, lived in a period when ignorance, poverty, and disease had overshadowed the country. obviously, literature in late 19th century and early 20th century witnessed a rise and boom which included political, social, and cultural issues. and it was poetry that could yield positive effects in th...

The modern use of slave labor in the production of agriculture takes many forms. In Brazil, the ability of powerful landowners to repress poor workers is an important element of large-scale agricultural production. In South Asia, cultural norms and traditions are used to exploit the most vulnerable communities. In both examples, inequity and poverty are implicit, and debt is a tool used to legi...

Economic growth has helped lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. However, many people remain poor, unable to effectively participate in or benefit from economic growth despite being economically active as workers, producers and consumers. Structural inequalities and other constraints – including policy, legal and cultural environments – mean that they lack the inputs, services, skills devel...

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the validity and policy relevance of the two major types of poverty theories: the cultural theory and the ~tructural theory. The two types of theories are defined and the evidence for them is assessed. As the theories are almost entirely based upon case studies, the assessment utilizes methodologically more rigorous research as well as an internal analy...

The objectives of this study are first, to identify poverty from a cultural perspective, particularly Acehnese culture; second, the socio-cultural potentials people related alleviation; and third, analyze program that is carried out so poor families can be poverty. research method used descriptive qualitative method. results indicate community especially culture, interpreted as way life or cult...