Question

Identify the main reason that anthropologists Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky argue is at the root of contemporary poverty in the United States.

Answer 1

The main reasons that Goode and Makovsky argue are at the root of poverty in the United States are economic polarization, political mobilization, and market triumphalism.

In their book The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States, the authors Judith Goode and Jeff Makovsky, theoretically explain how contemporary poverty in the United States has been constructed from three processes that are:

• Economic polarization
• political mobilization
• market triumphalism

They argue that these factors are due to:

• The difference between the upper social class and the lower social classes,
• The demotivation of the lower classes to participate in politics because they consider that they have no place in it,
• The role of the market economy that have marked the end of the welfare state.

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