Social Statistician, Sociology and Anthropology

Jousairi H asbullah:
  It is almost imposible to be able to interprete social statistics data if one do not have a good capacity in understanding social pheno  menon. If you want tobe a powerful data interpreter, you must study sociology and anthropology.

Let me give an example of how you can translate the poverty rate substantively if you do not learn about the social causes of poverty and the history of human activities that cause them tobe poor.

Let me give an example of how we could understand human cultural experience and relate it with poverty. If we learn about anthropology especially practice theory developed by Piere Bourdieu which said that human ideas and values are formed and shaped by human cultural experience. Habitus according to Bourdieu in the traditional  societies  are never questioned. This situation in the classification by Bourdieu called as doxa. When doxa exists, there is no choice, people see no option. This is the root of poverty.
Economist always give answer too simple of the cause of poverty like of inflation, low wages, and other related superficial determinants.
The alternative to doxa are the situation, people have more than one possible rule and meaning exists which what he called as Heterodoxy. The third posibility is Orthodoxy. In this situation, powerful people, class, or interests often force people into their line. By learning this theory we will understand one, among many causes, of why people being poor. This is just an example.
Jousairi Hasbullah
JSHcenter. Bandung 12 July 2018.