对贫困的理论研究和经验测定，算起来足有200年的历史了。多少位著名的思想家似乎无一不是从它的旁边走过去的。这也说明，贫困是所有社会问题中最具有社会性的问题。它实际上是把社会学概念和范畴的全部焦点集中到自己身上。比如，非常明显的是，描述贫困不可能不提及到经济状 Theoretical studies and empirical tests of poverty have counted for 200 years. How many famous thinkers seem to have gone from it. This also shows that poverty is the most social problem of all social issues. It actually concentrates all the focus of sociological concepts and categories on themselves. For example, it is quite clear that describing poverty can not fail to refer to the economy