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ASSIGNMENT1RequiredTemplateEstablishingtheProblem-Incomeinequalityandpoverty.pptxIncome inequality and poverty
Social Problems Project: Assignment 1
Required sources: to complete this assignment, use your textbook and the reports and files posted for you on Canvas.
All answers must be in your own words
Do not copy and paste information from your text unless absolutely necessary. If quoting, provide page number for information.
Use complete sentences throughout the project.
Remove all instructions before submitting final draft of your assignment.
Establishing the problem: Inequality
Using your textbook reading, define what is meant by
Income Inequality
Social Stratification
Social Classes
In your own words, describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States.
Establishing the problem: Poverty
Define and discuss what the poverty thresholds (or poverty lines) are?
Give some examples from the most recent poverty thresholds (file provided on Canvas)
Define and discuss the ‘poverty gap.”
[feel free to add additional slides for space if you need them!]
Instructions: for the next slide, use the information provided in your textbook to complete the table. Use your own words—summarize the theoretical perspectives RELATED TO THE CAUSE OF INCOME INEQUALITY AND POVERTY. Do not copy directly from the book but rather summarize the information from the text to discuss what each perspective views as the causes of income inequality and poverty. Feel free to re-format how the information is presented. You can try different layouts as long as each theoretical perspective is presented and discussed and the material is clearly and neatly presented.
Theoretical perspectives – causes of inequality and poverty
| Structural Functionalism | Conflict | Symbolic Interactionism |
| (Remove this for final draft—with each one of these sections of the table, summarize how the perspective explains the causes of inequality and poverty?) |
Consequences of poverty
Drawing from your textbook, discuss at least three different consequences of poverty on life outcomes. State the consequence and briefly discuss it in one paragraph.
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