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‘Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or atleast widely encouraged or approved, in the societies to which they belong. Their resources are so seriously below those commanded by average individual or family that they are, in effect, excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs and activities. (Townsend, 1979, cf Harlambos and Hoborn : Sociology, p.297). From the above paragraph in which of the following way ‘poverty’ is defined ?
Answer: Poverty as ‘Relative deprivation’.