Poverty And Prejudice

Author : Mariz Tadros,Philip Mader,Kathryn Cheeseman
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529229059

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Poverty and Prejudice by Mariz Tadros,Philip Mader,Kathryn Cheeseman Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and non-state actors.

Author : Frances Finnegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : UOM:39015021928315

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Poverty and Prejudice by Frances Finnegan Pdf

Author : Kevin Lang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400839193

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Poverty and Discrimination by Kevin Lang Pdf

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it. Using rigorous statistical analysis and economic thinking to judge what the best research is and which theories match the evidence, this book clears the ground for students, social scientists, and policymakers who want to understand--and help reduce--poverty and discrimination. It evaluates how well antipoverty and antidiscrimination policies and programs have worked--and whether they have sometimes actually made the problems worse. And it provides new insights about the causes of, and possible solutions to, poverty and discrimination. The book begins by asking, "Who is poor?" and by giving a brief history of poverty and poverty policy in the United States in the twentieth century, including the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Among the topics covered are the changing definition of poverty, the relation between economic growth and poverty, and the effects of labor markets, education, family composition, and concentrated poverty. The book then evaluates the evidence on racial discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and criminal justice, as well as sex discrimination in the labor market, and assesses the effectiveness of antidiscrimination policies. Throughout, the book is grounded in the conviction that we must have much better empirical knowledge of poverty and discrimination if we hope to reduce them.

Author : Stuart C. Carr,Tod S. Sloan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461500292

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Poverty and Psychology by Stuart C. Carr,Tod S. Sloan Pdf

This volume is constituted of a collection of leading contributions, each focusing on understanding the global dynamics of poverty and wealth together, from a psychological (particularly social psychological) perspective. It is one of few (if any) books on the subject that combines psychological theory and research with community development and practice.

Author : Roy P. Benavidez,John R. Craig
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597973960

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Medal of Honor by Roy P. Benavidez,John R. Craig Pdf

The powerful story of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor

Author : Jaye B. Owens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781387486403

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Customer Servitude: Poverty, Prejudice, and Power On the Front Lines of American Commerce by Jaye B. Owens Pdf

Customer service jobs are the fastest growing sector of the economy, and they're filled by women, minorities, and the working poor. American commerce is built on a system which places the most marginalized workers at the mercy of the American public, prioritizes personality over skill, and promises advancement and wage opportunities which don't exist. Customer service employees know they're being exploited, but they've been effectively silenced through decades of injustice. It's time to make some noise.

Author : Verônica Morais Ximenes,James Ferreira Moura Jr.,Elívia Camurça Cidade,Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030242923

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Psychosocial Implications of Poverty by Verônica Morais Ximenes,James Ferreira Moura Jr.,Elívia Camurça Cidade,Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno Pdf

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization. The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty – Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.

Author : Peter Edelman
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595589576

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So Rich, So Poor by Peter Edelman Pdf

“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.” —Kirkus Reviews Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. In this “accessible and inspiring analysis”, lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood (Angela Glover Blackwell). For anyone who wants to understand one of the critical issues of twenty-first century America, So Rich, So Poor is “engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson) and “powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson).

Author : Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807116459

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Erskine Caldwell and the Fiction of Poverty by Sylvia Jenkins Cook Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773382234

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Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion by Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik Pdf

Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion offers a comprehensive selection of chapters written by academic researchers as well as direct practitioners and mental health consumer-survivors to examine the intersection of poverty, mental health, and social exclusion. With the aim of addressing complex issues from homelessness and housing to stigma and mental health, the volume presents the perspectives of a wide range of those affected by poverty and social exclusion including Canadian veterans, Indigenous women, homeless youth and families, and mental health consumer-survivors. Divided into four sections, the chapters explore the effects of social exclusion, examine the trajectory of how it occurs, analyze harmful policies in place that exacerbate the correlation between poverty and mental health issues, and introduce potential solutions to expand social inclusion to marginalized groups. Accessibly written, this text will be a valuable resource for courses on mental health, poverty, and social policy across the disciplines of social work, sociology, and health studies at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Author : Judith C. Blackwell,Murray E. G. Smith,John S. Sorenson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442600034

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Culture of Prejudice by Judith C. Blackwell,Murray E. G. Smith,John S. Sorenson Pdf

The principal theme of the book is that social science is at its best, and most exciting, when it confronts and refutes "cultures of prejudice"—intricate systems of beliefs and attitudes that sustain many forms of social oppression and that are, themselves, sustained by ignorance and fear of the unknown and the unfamiliar.

Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262535298

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The Vanishing Middle Class, new epilogue by Peter Temin Pdf

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about. The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America, and outlines ways to work toward greater equality so that America will no longer have one economy for the rich and one for the poor. Many poorer Americans live in conditions resembling those of a developing country—substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities. And although almost half of black Americans are poor, most poor people are not black. Conservative white politicians still appeal to the racism of poor white voters to get support for policies that harm low-income people as a whole, casting recipients of social programs as the Other—black, Latino, not like "us." Politicians also use mass incarceration as a tool to keep black and Latino Americans from participating fully in society. Money goes to a vast entrenched prison system rather than to education. In the dual justice system, the rich pay fines and the poor go to jail.

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780889615229

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics by Constance Backhouse Pdf

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Author : Jonathan Boston,Simon Chapple
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927277768

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The Child Poverty Debate by Jonathan Boston,Simon Chapple Pdf

What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This short book uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan approach, identifying child poverty as a critical issue for New Zealand’s future. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple’s succinct introduction to this challenge, drawn from their widely acclaimed full-length book Child Poverty in New Zealand and updated with new data, is essential reading.