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From lower class to underclass- [e-book] : The poor in American social science, 1930-1970
From lower class to underclass- [e-book] : The poor in American social science, 1930-1970
자료유형  
 학위논문
저자명  
O'Connor, Alice Mary.
서명/저자  
From lower class to underclass - [e-book] : The poor in American social science, 1930-1970
발행사항  
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
형태사항  
523 p.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
초록/해제  
요약 : This dissertation is an intellectual history of the concept of poverty formulated by American social scientists during the 1960s. While acknowledging the importance of economic and demographic trends in stimulating a "rediscovery" of poverty as a social problem in the 1960s, the analysis focuses on the meaning of poverty as a new conceptual framework for understanding and designing policies to combat a wide range of disadvantages long recognized by social scientists as problems of race, class and rural underdevelopment. In earlier decades social scientists wrote about poor people but not about the "poverty problem" as such. Rather, poverty was understood as a problem of race relations, class inequality, and the impact of modernization on traditional rural societies. The emergence of "poverty" as a separate research and policy category in the 1960s thus signified a shift in social scientific thinking about disadvantage. This shift reflected both the growing influence of economists and economic categories in defining social problems, and the tendency among sociologists and anthropologists to characterize the "lower-class" as an isolated, culturally distinct group defined in opposition to the predominantly "middle-class" culture of affluent America. Examining images of the poor in the social scientific literature of class stratification, rural society, and race relations beginning in the 1930s, the dissertation explains the evolution of the concept of poverty as an outgrowth of important trends in the ideological history of New Deal and postwar liberalism, the growth and structure of the U.S. welfare state, and the history of the social sciences. Other themes explored include the role of government and other funding agencies in shaping social science research agendas, and the use of social scientific expertise in the definition of social problems. This perspective helps to explain not only the concept of "poverty amidst affluence" that informed Great Society social policy, but also the subsequent debates over the "culture of poverty" that divided social scientists after the War on Poverty was declared. It also provides a basis upon which to assess the contemporary understanding of poverty, both as a concept and as a framework for addressing problems of disadvantage in the United States.
기타 저자  
The Johns Hopkins University.
수록지명  
Dissertation Abstracts International. 52-06A.
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