What is Material deprivation in terms of sociology?
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In western cultures we have everything washing machines phones tvs central heating etc someone who is materailly deprived will not have these tings in other words they so not have what the majority in their society has
it can include many items that most people would take for granted
it's just like saying.
1 goes to 5 of you,
and 5 goes to one of me.
well it means that when a society has for example 100 people and income of 1000 pounds of rice then 30 of them who are in a city took 900 pounds witch leaves remaining 70 with only 100 pounds so they first group deprived materials.
i tried to explain the idea throw an example hope it helped.
The PDF document at number 2 on the page below gives a good description and examples.
not having the basics for a normal life style like a bath a fire a home food etc.
It is not having everything you want, when you see others with all the material trappings in life and you don`t have then; you may well consider yourself to be materially deprived.
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