Monitoring Perceptions of the Causes of Poverty in South Africa

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• 作者：Yul Derek Davids (1)
  Amanda Gouws (2)
  
• 关键词：Perceptions of poverty ; Causes of poverty ; Structural ; Individualistic ; Fatalistic ; South Africa
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：February 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：110
• 期：3
• 页码：1201-1220
• 全文大小：274KB
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• 作者单位：Yul Derek Davids (1)
  Amanda Gouws (2)
  
  1. Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation (PHHSI), Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), 12th Floor, Plein Park Building, 69-83 Plein Street, Cape Town, South Africa
  2. Political Science Department, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag x1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
  
• ISSN：1573-0921

文摘

This study explored how people perceive the causes of poverty. Literature revealed that there are three broad theoretical explanations of perceptions of the causes of poverty, namely individualistic explanations, where blame is placed squarely on the poor themselves; structural explanations, where poverty is blamed on external social and economic forces; and fatalistic explanations, which attribute poverty to factors such as bad luck or illness. To examine South Africans perceptions according to these dimensions secondary analysis was employed on one of the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) national representative client surveys. Approximately 3,498 respondents across South Africa were surveyed between 18 April and 30 May 2006. The bivariate analysis revealed that South Africans in general attribute poverty to structural over individualistic and fatalistic dimensions of poverty. Ordinary least square regressions revealed that these perceptions of poverty interacted with a host of socio-demographic and economic variables such as race and peoples-lived experiences of poverty. In this regard, all three ordinary least square regressions showed that lived poverty had a significant impact in predicting respectively structural, individualistic and fatalistic perceptions of the causes of poverty. The second regression predicted individualistic perceptions and showed that being white was the most significant predictor. The third regression predicted fatalistic perceptions and established that being coloured was the most significant predictor.