Critical discussion: definition of poverty as suggested by experts 

 Debates on poverty have been bedeviled by an artificial academic formalism, which has insisted that there must be an agreed core of meaning, that contradictory examples showed that certain uses were ‘right’ while others were ‘wrong’, and that disagreement was based not on a difference of interpretation or the focus of concern, but in a failure to understand the true nature of the problem. Poverty does not, however, have a single meaning. It has a series of meanings, linked through a series of resemblances.

In the social sciences, poverty is commonly understood in at least twelve discrete senses. The senses overlap; many of the main protagonists in the debate take two or three positions simultaneously. They are discrete because they can be logically separated so that circumstances that apply in one sense do not necessarily apply in others.

Poverty is abroad term with various definitions that accompany unique or different kinds of poverty, for example, Absolute and Relative poverty, material and numerous hardship and social rejection. 

There are kinds of advantages of poverty to people from different serves and foundations like government. For instance government can help people with month to month allowances, for example, Sassa which gives that help to take care the older, kids, individuals with incapacities, and lately  individuals who are jobless because of the COVID-19 pandemic get social alleviation awards and food stamps. Also, there is no requirement for people who are living in neediness to pay charge regardless of whether the bring in less cash. And furthermore they can get free clinical benefit from general wellbeing organizations. What's more, for understudies, they can have free lunch dinners at school and get monetary help from the public authority like Nsfas to subsidize person who needs to enlist at a school or college. and In the general public or local area, Poverty assists with the reusing of products. A populace of helpless maintains ordinary standards which benefits the local area.

  Comparison and difference between  Functionalist Approach and Conflict Approach

According to functionalist approach, the social problems appears from the mistakes of social institutions and other parts of society to accomplish their functions accordingly. So, if those functions they’re carried too far they may turn into negative consequences. And Conflict approach, the social problems starts from the abusive nature of capitalism along with class, race, ethnic, gender and other inequalities. And they appear from mistakes of the society and both reflect and strengthen inequalities based on social class, race.

Functionalist approach, the social problems makes the society’s stability weak, but it does not reflect underlying mistakes in how society is structured. And despite negative effects social problems serves important function for society. Solutions for social problems should take form of slow social reform than a quick reaching change. And according to Conflict approach, the far-reaching social change is needed to reduce social inequalities but to form egalitarian/ democratic society. Dominant and subordinate groups end up in wars for resources. Solutions to social problems must involve far-reaching change in the structure of the society  Functionalist approach, the social problems makes the society’s stability weak, but it does not reflect underlying mistakes in how society is structured. And despite negative effects social problems serves important function for society. Solutions for social problems should take form of slow social reform than a quick reaching change. And according to Conflict approach, the far-reaching social change is needed to reduce social inequalities but to form egalitarian/ democratic society. Dominant and subordinate groups end up in wars for resources. Solutions to social problems must involve far-reaching change in the structure of the society.