Poverty in El Salvador : a sociological analysis, 2003

Abstract

Poverty remains one of the greatest challenges of humanity in the new century and, therefore, characterizing it is of the utmost importance. Currently there is a variety of methods to measure it: income, basic needs, capacity and also seen as social exclusion, understood as the inability to participate in economic, cultural and political life, aspects that they contribute to the material and spiritual reproduction of human life.
Likewise, different levels of poverty can be distinguished, namely: historical poverty, historical existence of excluded sectors; poverty of immunities, effective existence of a sector excluded from the economic sphere; cultural poverty, lack or lack of access to sources that feed culture, scientific literature, literature, music, theater, among other aspects; technological poverty, the lack of appropriate technology for the integral development of the normal tasks of a community.