Thinker
Peter Townsend
Peter Townsend is central to 4 previous-year questions, spanning 2013 to 2023 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
4Questions
2013–23Years tested
I & IIPaper
2Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Peter Townsend
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
capability deprivation 3social exclusion 3culture of poverty 2multidimensional poverty 2relative deprivation 2absolute and relative povertycapability approachcycle of povertydeprivation and social exclusionmarginalisationrelative and absolute povertystandard of livingstructural inequality
Where Peter Townsend appears in the syllabus
Every question on Peter Townsend
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
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