Reconsidering Culture and Poverty by Harding, David

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412988988)

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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty by Harding, David

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

$55.00
Reconsidering Culture and Poverty by Harding, David

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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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 cul-ture 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: David Harding,Michele Lamont,Mario Luis Small
ISBN-10: 1412988985
ISBN-13: 9781412988988
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2010
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.63w x 0.48d
By David Harding
By David Harding
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Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology, Professor of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Her work has included comparative studies of stigma across different countries, the inner workings of culture and inequality and social change. She has written on areas such as, the ways in which the meanings applied to worth and moral worth shape ethno-racial and class inequality. She has explored the definitions and implications of 'excellence' on society and in higher education.

Michèle co-chairs the advisory board to the 2021-22 UN Human Development Report, "Uncertain times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a World in Transformation" and served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, a Gutenberg research award in 2014, the 2017 Erasmus Prize, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for 2019-21.

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