Culture of Poverty

Poverty is a part in urban society; it’s normal to see the poverty in all different parts of a city.  There are people that could not find jobs or are underpay which can causes poverty to exist. They can have the slightest education background but all they need to know is how to survive in the streets. There are conditions where the poor can live in a run down apartment and can support themselves with the little pay they have. Sometimes poverty can lead to gangs, robbery, and even worse murder. Poverty can be mistaken in the norm society; they are usually mistaken to not fit into society even though they’re helpless.

            There are many people that live in urban city without a home and a job, in a society with high expectation. In Oscar Lewis work Culture of poverty he explains how poverty is characterized as, evil, mean, violent, sordid, and criminal. There is a chance that poverty is being thought as negative as Lewis says because of how people in poverty portray themselves. Sometimes being in poverty make them desperate to get money even if it means used drastic methods.

            Oscar Lewis taken his research of the culture of poverty all the way to San Juan and Mexico City. He has taken in consideration that people there don’t be distinguish people based on racial background. In Lewis’s work Culture of poverty he write that people with a culture of poverty are provincial and locally oriented and have little sense of history (Lewis 180). All they have to worry about is themselves and what they need to know in order to survive.

            I think that people in the culture of poverty has been looked as the short of people that just lives in slums and exclude the idea of how they got there. It’s not always easy in a urban society. I think they are free to believe and think how they want and not worry so much about the how the government is going bad due to lack of jobs. They don’t have to worry a lot of problems which middle class and rich class have to worry about.