Some people argue that what keeps people poor is not public policy or some other systemic failure, but a set of attitudes, values, and beliefs that do not promote mainstream societal values about self-sufficiency and independence. This largely disputed perspective is known as
A) a structural attribution.
B) fatalism.
C) a culture of poverty attribution.
D) postmodernism.

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This perspective is known as a culture of poverty attribution. It suggests that a lack of self-sufficiency and independence is perpetuated by cultural norms and values that keep people in poverty, rather than by systemic failures or policies.

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