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Author : Eleanor Burke Leacock
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001943492
Papers from a symposium of the American Anthropological Association examining life styles, education, language and other characteristics of the underpriviliged.
Author : Oscar Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Families
ISBN : OCLC:1239626571
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684826783
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author : David Harding,Michele Lamont,Mario Luis Small
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412988971
Culture has returned to the poverty research agenda. Over the past decade, sociologists, demographers, and even economists have begun asking questions about the role of culture in many aspects of poverty, at times even explaining the behavior of low-income populations in reference to cultural factors. Unlike their predecessors, contemporary researchers rarely claim that culture will sustain itself for multiple generations regardless of structural changes, and they almost never use the term "pathology," which implied in an earlier era that people would cease to be poor if they changed their culture. The new generation of scholars conceives of culture in substantially different ways. In this latest issue of the ANNALS, readers are treated to thought-provoking articles that attempt to bridge the gap between poverty and culture scholarship, highlighting new trends in poverty research. This volume is vital reading, not only for sociologists but also for researchers across the social sciences as a whole.
Author : Adam D. Vass Gal
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622739875
Are the impoverished victims of circumstance or are they contributing to their situations through their own actions and principles? This perplexing question does not have a simple answer. "Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor" examines both sides of the coin. Written by an economist, the book provides a unique perspective into the study of this emotionally-charged issue. It shows that economic analysis can shed light on some of the roots of persistent poverty and may point to its potential solution. Generational Poverty covers the author’s eye-opening experiences with a young man named Jermaine and his family, initiated through the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) program. As someone who cares for Jermaine and his family, it was nothing short of a surprise to see first-hand some of the obstacles Jermaine’s family are creating for themselves, while at the same time battling many of today’s social constructs. In the course of the program, the author learned a great deal about Jermaine’s life, culture, and the obstacles he faces. This work identifies impediments that Jermaine has experienced as well as common challenges faced in his community. In the words of the author: “Most of my research for this book is devoted to pinpointing these cultural issues and gathering varying opinions for each one. While I do detail each unique perspective, my goal is to align each argument to an economic fundamental. This creates a more consistent diagnosis that does not depend on a personal set of values. My hope is that future economists will continue to study this suffering portion of our population to determine the most effective way to remedy the continuingly increasing problem of poverty.”
Author : Oscar Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001981047
Author : B. Mohan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230117655
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.
Author : Donna Walker-Tileston,Sandra Darling
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781934009796
Learn a four-step research-based program for differentiating instruction based on the cultural needs, beliefs, and values of diverse learners. The authors show you how to build teacher background knowledge; plan for differentiation; and differentiate context, content, process, product, and assessment. This book provides an opportunity for the education community to engage students at risk whom our schools have often failed.
Author : United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : African American families
ISBN : IND:30000038612457
The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.
Author : Edward Royce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538167571
Poverty is a serious problem in the United States, more so than commonly imagined, and more so than in other industrialized nations. Most Americans adhere to an individualistic perspective: they believe poverty is largely the result of people being deficient in intelligence, determination, education, and other personal traits. Poverty and Power, Fourth Edition challenges this viewpoint, arguing that poverty arises from the workings of four key structural systems—the economic, the political, the cultural, and the social—and ten obstacles to economic justice, including unaffordable housing, inaccessible health care, and racial and gender discrimination. The author argues that a renewed war on poverty can be successful, but only through a popular movement to bring about significant change in the workings of American economic, political, and cultural institutions. New to this Edition Enhanced conversation on why the cultural theory of poverty has such a strong appeal to the American public develops students’ critical thinking skills (Chapter 3) New segment on the influence of job seekers’ physical appearance on hiring decisions showing that success is not simply a matter of education, skills, and training (Chapter 4) New data on the “job availability problem” explains in detail why the monthly headline unemployment number is misleading, and new content on the 2021 upsurge of quits on the part of American workers portrays efforts on the part of ordinary people to improve their lives (Chapter 5) New content on how corporations have become increasingly assertive political players explores the dramatic increase in corporate lobbying efforts, the rise of billionaire political activists, and the creation of a powerful conservative political infrastructure in the United States (Chapter 6) Greater attention to racially segregated and resource-deprived Black communities covers the extraordinary hardships experienced by the residents of these areas, while a new section on the geographical isolation of the affluent discusses how isolation affects wealthy people’s beliefs and perceptions about poverty and what policies they deem acceptable (Chapter 8)
Author : William Julius Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393073521
A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma. In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African American family. Though the discussion of racial inequality is typically ideologically polarized. Wilson dares to consider both institutional and cultural factors as causes of the persistence of racial inequality. He reaches the controversial conclusion that while structural and cultural forces are inextricably linked, public policy can only change the racial status quo by reforming the institutions that reinforce it.
Author : Daniel Dohan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520238893
"Masterful scholarship--detailed, insightful, and original. Dohan investigates the role that immigration plays in understanding Latino poverty in the United States. He also provides a nuanced and detailed analysis of neighborhood factors that help us better understand Latino poverty and how Latino residents navigate the world of low-skill work, resources, and life in the barrio."—Abel Valenzuela Jr., co-editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles "A very timely study. At a time when the Latino population is rapidly growing in the U.S., Dohan provides us with one of the best and most poignant studies of the Mexican American Barrio. Based on rich data collected in two poor Mexican-American neighborhoods, this thoughtful and interesting book will draw a lot of attention both inside and outside of academia."—William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears "With Dohan's book, we finally receive an in-depth understanding of the nuances of life inside the urban, often poor and working-class, Mexican-American communities. Urban ethnographic scholarship on the poor, dominated too long by the African-American experience for its questions, concerns and voices, now finally has a corrective and a complementary text."—Sudhir Venkatesh, author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
Author : Oscar Lewis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307744548
A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published. It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its members—Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children—as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their extraordinary personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but ultimately tragic portrait that is at once harrowing and humane, mystifying and moving. An invaluable document, full of verve and pathos, The Children of Sanchez reads like the best of fiction, with the added impact that it is all, undeniably, true.
Author : Charles A. Valentine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poor
ISBN : OCLC:1075095944
Author : Cara A. Finnegan
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047910669
Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Picturing Poverty examines how popular magazines used these images to construct complex and often contradictory messages about poverty. By striving to understand the original context of the photographs, Finnegan shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various roles of the media.