THE UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY IN A GROUP OF CHILDREN IN LOWER SOCIECONOMIC STATUS

Abstract

The article presents the results of a research about understanding of the poverty (ideas and theories) in a group of school boys and girls from 7  to 12 years living in lower socioeconomic status. It was shown that children handle a conceptualization that goes from a daily’s concrete notion to a more reflexive and abstract one (from
an individualistic conception of poverty to build a more collectivist and relational definition). Also, their theories about the origin  of poverty have individualistic features till they also take elements of social structural order.