Exparts such as Peter Townsend sees/defines poverty as a standard of a certain society at a certain time, seeing that people's needs are determined by the society's effects. In his theory be states that poverty means or occurs when individuals, families and groups on population lacks the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities are customary, or at least encouraged or approved widely in their belonging societies. Whenever your resources are seriously below those commanded by the average individual or family that they are in effects not considered from ordinary patterns, customs and activities, you therefore under the definition of poverty in accordance to Townsend.

In this expert theory a family can be said to be in relative poverty when possessing certain factors such as you had no week's  holiday away from home in last 12  months or household has no refrigerator. Certain experts or sociologists define poverty as a social condition which is compromised by lack of resources which is of necessary for basic survival in order to meet a certain minimum level of standards expected for the place where one lives. Conditions of existence can be a definition in accordance to other scientists, whereby lack of access to food, clothing and shelter are conditions. Whenever you experience persistent hunger/starvation, inadequate education and health care you are therefore regarded poor.

Experts has defined poverty in types which comprises of absolute poverty, whereby there is total lack of resources and means required in order to reach most basic standards of living. Another type of poverty is relative poverty when one lacks the means  and resources needed to meet a minimum level of living standards which are considered normal in society which you live in.