Locate and identify the Stated Main Idea in the passage below. Sociologists have several different ways of defining poverty. Transitional poverty is a temporary state that occurs when someone loses a job for a short time. Marginal poverty occurs when a person lacks stable employment (for example, if your job is lifeguarding at a pool during the summer season, you might experience marginal poverty when the season ends). The next, more serious level, residual poverty, is chronic and multigenerational. A person who experiences absolute poverty is so poor that he or she doesn't have resources to survive. Relative poverty is a state that occurs when we compare ourselves with those around us. Carl, John D., Think Sociology, 1st Ed., 2010. Reprinted and Electronically reproduced by permission of Pearson education, Inc., New York, NY.