The Culture of Poverty in Warsaw District of Praga

This article presents a study of the urban culture of poverty conducted between 2019 and 2021 in Warsaw’s Praga district, culminating in a PhD thesis written at the Maria Grzegorzewska University (APS). The research conducted provides a better understanding of how the persistence of the culture of poverty, a kind of social “disability” and, at the same time, a social necessity, is sustained. It points to problems in the relationship between respondents and their social environment, as well as to mechanisms of marginalisation and self-exclusion. The article consists of three parts. The first presents the concept of the culture of poverty, the second presents the form and conduct of the research, and the third presents the research results and conclusions.