South African children's views of wealth, poverty, inequality and unemployment
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The aim of this study is to investigate the understanding of wealth, poverty, inequality and unemployment in South African Black (African) children aged 7, 9, 11 and 14 drawn from a rural, an urban and a semi-urban setting. Two hundred and twenty-®ve children (80 rural, 60 urban and 85 semi-urban) were interviewed individually in Setswana, their mother tongue. The urban children were living in a township in Pretoria, the semi-urban and the rural in the North West Province. The results show that the particulars of the childrenÕs knowledge about wealth, poverty, inequality and unemployment were in ̄uenced by their social environment. However, in line with previous studies, the results show that the childrenÕs capacity to make inferences and integrate information about these concepts is more in ̄uenced by age than by their social milieu. Ó 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PsycINFO classi®cation: 2800; 2840 JEL classi®cation: J13; E40; G21
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