What do cultural explanations of poverty seek to do?

a. View individuals as possessing certain cultural characteristics because of the social situations they were born into and in which they were reared and educated
b. Blame the individual's genetics for their impoverished state.
c. Explain the individual's poverty from an environmental viewpoint.
d. None of the above.


a. View individuals as possessing certain cultural characteristics because of the social situations they were born into and in which they were reared and educated

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