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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (Paperback)
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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (Paperback)
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series, 629
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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. The authors identi-fy the scholarly and policy-related
basis for why poverty researchers should be deeply concerned with
culture, noting the importance of understanding better how people
cope with poverty and how they escape it. They then tackle the
perplexing question-what is "culture"?-and propose that
sociologists and anthropologists studying culture have developed at
least seven different analytical tools for cap-turing meaning that
could help answer a number of questions central to the study of
poverty, including those centered on marriage, educa-tion,
neighborhoods, and community participation, among others. While not
denying the importance of macro-structural conditions-such as the
concentration of wealth and income, the spatial segregation across
classes and racial groups, or the persistent international
migration of labor and capital-they argue that human action is both
constrained and enabled by the meaning people give to their actions
and that these dynamics should become central to our understanding
of the production and reproduction of poverty and social
inequality. By considering poverty in the United States and abroad,
examining both the elite, policy-making level and the daily lives
of low-income people themselves, the articles convey a composite
and multileveled picture of the ways in which meaning-making
factors into the production and reproduction of poverty. The volume
aims to demonstrate the importance of cultural concepts for poverty
research, serve as a model and a resource for poverty scholars who
wish to incorporate cultural concepts into their research, assist
in the training of future scholars working at the nexus of poverty
and culture, and identify crucial areas for future methodological,
theoretical, and empirical development. The volume also serves to
debunk existing myths about the cultural orientations of the poor
for those formulating policy; as the editors point out, "ignoring
culture can lead to bad policy." This volume is vital reading, not
only for sociologists but also for researchers across the social
sciences as a whole.
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