Biedni o politykach

Abstract

The article presents some results of the research study „The Poor about Themselves” conducted as part of a larger project called „The Discourses of Poverty and Social Exclusion”. It is thematically and methodologically rooted in the research “The Poverty First Hand Study” carried out by the British scholar Ruth Lister and her collaborators. As part of my project, three groups of people who live or have lived in poverty in the past discussed their ways of defining poverty, its causes and effects, their strategies for dealing with these problems, and their views on how the poor are perceived and treated by those who have not experienced poverty themselves, especially by politicians and media. The aim of the study was to learn and reconstruct reflections, opinions and feelings of people who know poverty from the inside.