The gradual shift from material deprivation to social deprivation has broadened the concept of poverty. This provides scope for further refining the concept, to which sociologists can contribute substantially. While British and American sociologists are working on poverty as a core issue, Indian sociologists have left poverty studies to the exclusive domain of economists and statisticians.
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