Oscar Lewis's Five Families: The Culture Of Poverty

Researchers provide much information to give of examples of issues that affect our society. The study can provide data in different ways. Theses data can be put in graphs of different types to get to the point of issues. After analyzing the data provided by The Hamilton projects Brooking. I learned about the risk behaviors of youths and the relation to low, middle and high income levels. The chart is called “Adolescent risk behaviors by family income level.” In this essay, I will define the cultural of poverty and explain how it relates to the data in the chart.
This data show that there is not a big difference when it comes to drugs use and the income level of families. This data is from 1997 from the National Survey of youths. The graph uses

It is hard for the poor to gain social mobility because of their background It focuses on how been poor is more than just a matter of income. The culture of poverty tells us that poor people tend to feel helplessness, dependency, of not belonging and with a strong feeling of marginality. Anthropologist Oscar Lewis in his 1959 wrote a book, Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty. The culture of poverty theory states that living in conditions of pervasive poverty will lead to the development of a culture or subculture adapted to those conditions. This theory tells us that its hard for people living in poverty to come out of their way of thinking or behaving.
After studying the data by adolescence risk factors. I will say this chart does not support this theory Because there is not much different from people with high income and low-income families. According to the chart around eleven percent of youths from high-income families still something with a value of fifty or more dollars, and around 18 percent of families with low-income families still something of value of fifty. I don’t think there is a big different. In the other hand when it comes to drugs families with high income have a higher percentage in the use and the sales of drugs. This definable don’t support Lewis theory that children living in poverty condition are unable to think or escape from the

People in poverty are more likely to ingaged in criminal behavior because of the situation they are in. the lack of education resources and mental problems like depression, can be some of the main causes of a poverty cycle. I think this data have good information and I also believe that no matter the income level of a family when it comes to drug use. The graft show that people with middler income families and low income families have come similarities with drug use but when it comes to criminal behavior like carrying a gun, stealing, or been a member of a gang, middler and low income families have a higher percentage. I think the graph supports the culture of poverty, because low and middle income have more criminal behavior witch can continue even if the income level gets better. This data They sale and use drugs the same percentage. income level I also have seen poor people become rich because of their effort to do better. I don’t agree that poor people create a circle of poverty for