The accumulation of social problems 1974‐2000 (Chapter 4)

See also the discussion on the absolute and relative poverty lines in Chapter 3: Financial poverty. 5While Sen (1983) argues that the concept of poverty has an absolutist core in the form of nutritional needs etc, Townsend (1985) holds that these, too, are socially defined and that operationalisations of the two concepts often overlap in practice (Townsend & Gordon, 1991).