SUMMARY Most commentators on urban poverty reject the idea that the culture of poor people has anything to do with their poverty. By stressing material and physical factors only, they support the dominant approach in social science, which gives culture little role in social causation. But to pay attention to perceptions and values is not inconsistent with attention to the distribution of resources and power; and is important if questions about people's response to changes in the environment—government programmes, radical political movements—are to be given satisfactory answers. RESUME La Culture et la Pauvreté—Reconsidération La plupart des commentateurs de la pauvreté urbaine rejettent l'idée selon laquelle la culture des gens pau...
In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass can be helpful in so...
While there is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as an overriding goal of development policy,...
An individual and social groups do not have to be only affected by poverty in economic way, but in a...
In this paper we briefly review relevant research on the culture of poverty and set our findings wit...
Are the poor all alike or are they different? Both, obviously. The similarities are handled by polit...
A lot of poverty writers explained that the conceptualization and dimension of poverty influence the...
Meaning-making is an essential feature of social life: as humans make their way through their daily ...
Understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and structure is a fundamental sociological q...
The normative dimension of the notion of poverty, and its embedding in the long history of cultures,...
The study reviewed literature on the theories of poverty. The theories reviewed included theory of i...
mensions affect both the relations between social classes, the public discourse on poverty, the repr...
Summaries The legacy of past perceptions of poverty and its causes have been embodied in many core ...
This paper speaks to the problem of designing income maintenance programs from the perspective of so...
Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard U...
The 1980s saw a shift in the emphasis of discourse on poverty from production relations to consumpti...
In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass can be helpful in so...
While there is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as an overriding goal of development policy,...
An individual and social groups do not have to be only affected by poverty in economic way, but in a...
In this paper we briefly review relevant research on the culture of poverty and set our findings wit...
Are the poor all alike or are they different? Both, obviously. The similarities are handled by polit...
A lot of poverty writers explained that the conceptualization and dimension of poverty influence the...
Meaning-making is an essential feature of social life: as humans make their way through their daily ...
Understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and structure is a fundamental sociological q...
The normative dimension of the notion of poverty, and its embedding in the long history of cultures,...
The study reviewed literature on the theories of poverty. The theories reviewed included theory of i...
mensions affect both the relations between social classes, the public discourse on poverty, the repr...
Summaries The legacy of past perceptions of poverty and its causes have been embodied in many core ...
This paper speaks to the problem of designing income maintenance programs from the perspective of so...
Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard U...
The 1980s saw a shift in the emphasis of discourse on poverty from production relations to consumpti...
In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass can be helpful in so...
While there is worldwide agreement on poverty reduction as an overriding goal of development policy,...
An individual and social groups do not have to be only affected by poverty in economic way, but in a...