Question

It is 1970, and a development worker hopes to understand Mexican peasant families before intervening to improve their lives. This development worker reads Oscar Lewis’s "The Culture of Poverty" and interprets peasant life according to Lewis’s theory. What does the development worker conclude?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation: From the given case/scenario, we can state that the development worker tends to conclude that the peasants make rational decision but at times they also make self-defeating choices,  thus tend to pass poverty to the subsequent generations.These decision and choices tends to push the subsequent generation into the vicious cycle of poverty.