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Coping with Poverty - The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community (Paperback)
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Coping with Poverty - The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community (Paperback)
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Conservatives often condemn the poor, particularly
African-Americans, for having children out of wedlock, joblessness,
dropping out of school, or tolerating crime. Liberals counter that,
with more economic opportunity, the poor differ little from the
nonpoor in these areas. In answer to both, "Coping with Poverty"
points to the survival strategies of the poor and their multiple
roles as parents, neighbors, relatives, and workers. Their attempts
to balance multiple obligations occur within a context of limited
information, social support, and resources. Their decisions may not
always be the wisest, but they "make sense" in context.
Contributors use qualitative research methods to explore the
influence of community, workplace, and family upon strategies for
dealing with poverty. Promising young scholars delve into poor
black inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs and middle-income black
urban communities, exploring experiences at all stages of life,
including high-school students, young parents, employed older men,
and unemployed mothers. Two chapters discuss the role of
qualitative research in poverty studies, specifically examining how
this research can be used to improve policymaking.
The volume's contribution is in the diversity of experiences it
highlights and in how the general themes it illustrates are similar
across different age/gender groups. The book also suggests an
approach to policymaking that seeks to incorporate the experiences
and the needs of the poor themselves, in the hope of creating more
successful and more relevant poverty policy. It is especially
useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, public
policy, urban studies, and African-American Studies, as its scope
makes it THE basic reader of qualitative studies of poverty.
Sheldon Danziger is Director of the Poverty Research and Tranining
Center and Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University
of Michigan. Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Political
Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan.
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