Exclusion-Based Explanations (AQA A-Level Sociology): Flashcards

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What exclusion-based theories blame for poverty

Structural factors beyond personal control

Situational constraints theory focus

Structural barriers to accessing labour market

4 examples of situational constraints

Unemployment, retirement, lone parenthood, disability

Ideology linked to situational constraints theory

Social democratic

Universal benefits definition

Payments to all as a right, regardless of income

William Beveridge's welfare state vision phrase

From the cradle to the grave

Social democrats' critique of means-tested benefits

Creates residual welfare state and social division

Who introduced the Third Way

Tony Blair's New Labour

Third Way driving ideology

Welfare to work

Poverty trap definition

Being financially worse off in work than on benefits

Marxist view: source of poverty

Capitalist system itself

Gans: why capitalism maintains poverty (labour function)

Ensures people accept dangerous, dirty, low-paid jobs

Marxist solution to poverty

Overthrowing capitalism entirely

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