Editing Underclass (section)

===Behavioral characteristics===
Not only is the underclass frequently said to think differently, they are also said to behave differently. Some believe that the underclass concept was meant to capture the coincidence of a number of social ills including poverty, joblessness, crime, welfare dependence, fatherless families, and low levels of education or work related skills.<ref name="Jenks growing" /><ref name="Wilson 1987 29">{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=William Julius|title=The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy|year=1987|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, IL|isbn=0-226-90131-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/trulydisadvantag00wilsrich/page/n44 29]|url=https://archive.org/details/trulydisadvantag00wilsrich|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Auletta|first=Ken|title=The Underclass|url=https://archive.org/details/underclass00aule|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=Random House|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-87951-929-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/underclass00aule/page/80 80]}}</ref> These behavioral characteristics, coupled with arguments that the underclass is psychologically disconnected from mainstream society, are occasionally highlighted as evidence that the underclass live in a [[Culture of poverty|subculture of poverty]]. From this point of view, members of the underclass embody a distinct set of thoughts, perceptions, and actions – a "style of life" - that are transmitted across generations.<ref>{{cite book|last=Peterson|first=Paul|title="The Urban Underclass and the Poverty Paradox" in The Urban Underclass|year=1990|publisher=The Brookings Institution|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=0-8157-4605-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/urbanunderclass0000unse/page/3 3–27]|editor=Christopher Jenks and Paul E. Peterson|url=https://archive.org/details/urbanunderclass0000unse/page/3}}</ref> However, just as the conceptualization of a "[[culture of poverty]]" in general is debated, so too are the attempts to frame the underclass as members of such a culture.