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What's Wrong with Being Poor? The Problems of Poverty, as Young People Describe them
Author(s) -
Farthing Rys
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12107
Subject(s) - silence , poverty , agency (philosophy) , sociology , politics , focus group , gender studies , economic growth , criminology , political science , social science , economics , law , philosophy , anthropology , aesthetics
This article explores how young people living in low‐income neighbourhoods problematise their own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11–21. Three common problems were identified; housing, education and crime, as well as one common silence around their own agency. This silence is perhaps substituted by a focus on collective agency and politics, suggesting that perhaps young people can see poverty as a more collective problem than previous research may highlight.