The Social Construction Of Poverty
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Author | : Romano, Serena |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447312732 |
Poverty is not a neutral phenomenon, nor are social inclusion programmes neutrally conceived, designed and implemented.Their ultimate nature is built upon ideas, values, actors, politics and economic constraints.This topical book is one of the first to examine the social and political construction of anti-poverty programmes in Central Eastern Europe and their transformation from communist rule to the current economic crisis. It covers the approach towards the ‘parasite’ poor through to Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes and illustrates how the distinction between different categories of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor has evolved over the years as the result of changing paradigms, combined with the pressure exerted by domestic and international actors, the European Union and the World Bank among others. This text breaks new ground for social policy students and scholars interested in understanding how differently post-communist welfare states have represented, legitimised and dealt with poverty, need and social justice in accordance with divergent normative frameworks constructed at national level.
Author | : Peter L. Berger |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1453215468 |
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author | : Erica Lenore Kohl |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Philip Oxhorn |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271048948 |
"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Scott Myers-Lipton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317251849 |
The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction from Thomas Paine's agrarian justice to Josiah Quincy's proposal for the construction of poorhouses; from the Freedmen's Bureau to Sitting Bull's demand for money and supplies; from Coxey's army of the unemployed to Jane Addams's Hull House; from the Civil Works Administration to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for an Economic Bill of Rights; and from William Julius Wilson's universal programme of reform to George W. Bush's armies of compassion.
Author | : Loretta Brunious |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351226924 |
This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
Author | : Esther Saraga |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113467693X |
This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the processes through which social problems and social inequalities are constructed. In particular, it examines the shifting ways in which our ideas about issues such as 'disability', 'race' and ethnicity, and sexuality influence the development of social policies.
Author | : Pauline Elizabeth Eadie |
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Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Judith Lorber |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Feminism |
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Author | : Anne L. Schneider |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791483835 |
Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an underclass of marginalized and disadvantaged people who are widely viewed as undeserving and incapable. Deserving and Entitled provides a close inspection of many different policy arenas, showing how the use of power and the manipulation of images have made it appear both natural and appropriate that some target populations benefit from policy, while others do not. These social constructions of deservedness and entitlement, unless challenged, become amplified over time and institutionalized into permanent lines of social, economic, and political cleavage. The contributors here express concern that too often public policy sends messages harmful to democracy and contributes significantly to the pattern of uneven political participation in the United States.