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Many businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations exist to serve poor people or to monitor their behavior. This arrangement is one example of?

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Many businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations exist to serve poor people or to monitor their behavior. This arrangement is one example of function of poverty.

Poverty refers to a state when someone cannot satisfy their basic needs that is someone who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.

Poverty can be of different types like

  • Situational poverty,
  • Generational poverty,
  • Absolute poverty,
  • Relative poverty,
  • Urban poverty,
  • Rural poverty.

Sociologist Herbert Gans gave functions of poverty as

  1. The existence of poverty ensures that society's "dirty work" will be done,
  2. Because the poor are required to work at low wages, they subsidize a variety of economic activities that benefit the affluent,
  3. Poverty creates jobs for a number of occupations and professions that serve or "service" the poor, or protect the rest of society from them. There are many more such functions.

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