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The anthropologist oscar lewis suggested the cause of poverty lies in ________

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The correct answer is "a lower-class culture of poverty".

According to Oscar Lewis, poverty is caused by a lower-class culture of poverty, while sociologist Julius Wilson suggests that poverty is caused by few available jobs, which led people with no way to earn money to live a proper life.
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