| Description |
xviii, 425 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Perspectives on poverty ; 1 |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences library. |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Library.
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Perspectives on poverty ; 1.
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| Note |
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 |
Bibliography: pages [399]-418. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Poor -- United States.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- United States.
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| Subject |
Poverty.
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Poverty.
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| Added Author |
Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003, editor.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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