On understanding poverty : perspectives from the social sciences / Edited by Daniel P. Moynihan ; with the assistance of Corinne Saposs Schelling.
Contributor(s): Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick)
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TextSeries: Perspectives on poverty ; 1. Publisher: New York, Basic Books [1969]General Notes: Based on papers presented at a continuing seminar of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on problems of race and poverty during the academic year 1966-67.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-418) and index.Description: xviii, 425 p. 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780465052561.Subject(s): Poor -- United States | PovertyDDC classification: 301.45/23/0973 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-418) and index.
The professors and the poor / Daniel P. Moynihan -- Class, status, and poverty / Peter H. Rossi and Zahava D. Blum -- Poverty: changing social stratification / S.M. Miller and Pamela Roby -- Inheritance of poverty or inheritance of race? / Otis Dudley Duncan -- Deprivation and migration: dilemmas of causal interpretation / Marc Fried -- Poverty in historical perspective / Stephan Thernstrom -- The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis -- Culture and class in the study of poverty: an approach to anti-poverty research / Herbert J. Gans -- The problem of lower-class culture and poverty-war strategy / Lee Rainwater -- The elimination of the American lower class as a national policy: a critique of the ideology of the poverty movement of the 1960s / Walter Miller -- An economic definition of poverty / Harold Watts -- Identifying the poor: economic measures of poverty / Gerald Rosenthal -- Appendix: --Social class research and images of the poor: a bibliographic review / Zahava D. Blum and Peter H. Rossi.
Based on papers presented at a continuing seminar of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on problems of race and poverty during the academic year 1966-67.
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