Oscar Lewis was the first to suggest that, because they are excluded from mainstream social life, the poor develop a way of life with fundamentally different values and goals, which makes it much less likely that they will ever join the middle class. This way of life is usually called ________

Respuesta :

This way of life is usually called the culture of poverty.

Explanation:

Poverty means the people with insufficient income who are not able to fulfill his basic needs. Generally the people under poverty don’t have proper housing, clean water, healthy food or medical facility.

Poor Governance and economy of the country are the main cause of poverty.

The phrase 'culture of poverty' was coined by Oscar Lewis in the year 1960. He discovered this term to describe the failure of the poor in Latin America.