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- Charles Murray
- Gives a cultural explanation of poverty and the underclass
- Underclass represents poverty
which is rooted in undesirable
attitudes, illegitimacy and crime and
unemployment
- Critics accuse
Murray of 'Victim
blaming'.
- Benefits system needs to be changed e.g.
reducing welfare benefits to force members of
underclass to take on more responsibilities.
- Harvey and MacDonald (Teeside- 2000) tested murray's
views that the underclass have different views to mainstream
society.
- Majority of underclass DO
have conventional
aspirations
- Majority of underclass DO
have conventional
aspirations
- Gives a cultural explanation of poverty and the underclass
- Stephen Craine Sceptical of view that there is an
underclass in society. Most studies show little
evidence of 'worky-shy', criminal young people.
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