Perceptions of poverty: An analysis from complex thinking
Abstract
This article examines perceptions about poverty and strategies to overcome it from the perspective of complex thinking, for which semi-structured interviews were conducted with 105 people between May and September 2024, of which 95 were useful in the sense that they met the requirement of giving a clear answer to the questions asked. Through the VOSviewer (nocodeunctions) software, semantic maps were generated that allowed the main conceptual nodes to be visualized. The analysis revealed that perceptions about poverty oscillate between points of view where when talking about the poor there is an extensive explanation, however when talking about the way or ways through which one can get out of such a situation, there are not many ideas or desire to contribute, observing a kind of fracture in the social fabric, which suggests the need for comprehensive intervention strategies adapted to the particular social dynamics of each community.
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