A Quantitative Empirical Studies of "Culture of Poverty" in Nepalese Caste City

本研究旨在根据我们从尼泊尔种姓城市获得的定量数据，从经验上验证奥斯卡·刘易斯（1968年的《生活》）提出的“贫困文化”论文。从我们的博卡拉数据库中提取必要的信息，我们试图看到这些贵重物品之间的相关性，如种姓类别、家庭财富水平、家庭类型、婚姻模式等。家庭财富的贵重物品被分为三个相对的阶层，即“富裕阶层”、“中产阶层”和“贫困阶层”。同样，家庭类型的贵重物品也分为“父系大家庭”（PEF）、“伪父系大家庭”（SPEF）、“父系家庭”（PF）、“伪父系家庭”（SPF）、“核心家庭”（NCF）、“单一家庭”（SF）和“其他”（OT）六种类型。从家庭类型的财富阶层分布来看，贫困阶层中家庭类型数量最多的是单一家庭。家庭类型的流动从单一家庭，核心家庭，近亲家庭，近亲家庭，近亲大家庭到近亲大家庭。（另一方面，在富裕阶层，家庭类型的流动是反向的。）这可能意味着，根据一个家庭的规模，从父系大家庭到单一家庭，其相应的家庭财富一直在萎缩。刘易斯认为，贫困文化最明显的特征是家庭分裂和家庭内部纠纷，这自然导致了家庭规模的缩小。因此，我们可以说，我们的定性数据显示，即使在不同的文化背景下，刘易斯论文的一部分也具有经验相关性，而刘易斯在北美和中美洲大陆所做的则不同。根据我们的研究结果，我们还可以坚持认为，家庭财富程度越低，其对应家庭的家庭类型越小。虽然我们的假设论点还没有被具体的家族史实证证明，但这是一个同时定量数据的实证发现。然而，这是我们数据库的结果，它已经拯救了尼泊尔王国博卡拉的9000多个家庭。我们的数据库的数量庞大将导致我们目前的研究作为第一次尝试的重要性，以实证证明奥斯卡·刘易斯的论文。少

The present study aims to verify empirically in terms of our Quantitative data obtained from a Nepalese caste city a thesis of "Culture of Poverty" which was proposed by Oscar Lewis (in La Vida 1968). Extracting necessary information out of our Pokhara Database, we attempted to see correlation between these valuables such as caste categories, family wealth level, family types, patterns of marriage and so on.The valuables of family wealth are categorize into three relative classes such as "wealthy class", "middle class" and "poor class". In the same token, the valuables of family types are distinguised into six types such as "patrilineal extended family" (PEF), "pseudo-patrilineal extended family" (SPEF), patrilineal family " (PF)", "pseudo-patrilineal family" (SPF), "nuclear family" (NCF), "single family" (SF) and "others" (OT).Seeing the wealth-class-wise distributions of family types, in poor class the largest number of family types is single family. And, the flow of family types goe … More s from single family, nuclear family, suido-patlineal family, patlineal family, suido-patlineal extended family to patlineal extended family.(On the other hand, in the wealthy class, the flow of family types shifts in reverse order.)This probably means that, according to the size of a family from patrilineal extended family up to single family, it corresponding family wealth has been shrinking. Accruing to Lewis, the most obvious characteristics of the culture of poverty is spled family and intra-family dispute which has caused naturally downsized the family size. Hence, we can say that our qualitative data has shown a part of Lewis thesis empirically relevant even in a different cultural setting from where Lewis did in North American and Central American Continents.On the basis of our research results, we are also able to insist that the less the degree of family wealth becomes, the smaller the family type of its corresponding family turns to be. Although our hypothetical thesis is not yet empirically proved by concrete family histories but a empirical finding from a simultaneous quantative data. However is a result of our databese which has been saved more than 9,000 families at Pokhara, Kingdom Nepal. This quantitative massiveness of our database will lead to the importance of our present research as the first trial to prove Oscar Lewis's thesis empirically. Less