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People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic
hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive
consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth
Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and
poverty, cutting straight to the heart of debates about social
class. The book addresses tough questions, including how being poor
affects individual behavior, and how we can make sense of that in a
larger social and political context. The central premise is that to
understand the behavior and lives of people in poverty, one must
consider their relational context, especially relations of
vulnerability and the human need for dignity. Poverty is a social
problem we should address as a society by changing social relations
that, as a matter of course, cause unnecessary and immense
suffering. To do so, we must directly confront our lack of regard
for people in poverty by recognizing that they are in fact worthy
of an effort to induce major social change. This critical
introduction to poverty will be an important read for undergraduate
students and above in sociology wanting to learn more about the
growing social problems of poverty, inequality, and stratification.
People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic
hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive
consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth
Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and
poverty, cutting straight to the heart of debates about social
class. The book addresses tough questions, including how being poor
affects individual behavior, and how we can make sense of that in a
larger social and political context. The central premise is that to
understand the behavior and lives of people in poverty, one must
consider their relational context, especially relations of
vulnerability and the human need for dignity. Poverty is a social
problem we should address as a society by changing social relations
that, as a matter of course, cause unnecessary and immense
suffering. To do so, we must directly confront our lack of regard
for people in poverty by recognizing that they are in fact worthy
of an effort to induce major social change. This critical
introduction to poverty will be an important read for undergraduate
students and above in sociology wanting to learn more about the
growing social problems of poverty, inequality, and stratification.
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists
explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for
rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views
of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal
how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of
places and the people who identify with them. With research that
spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in
this volume add broadly to knowledge about status and prestige,
authenticity and belonging, rural-urban relations, and innovation
and change among rural peoples and in rural communities across the
globe.
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists
explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for
rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views
of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal
how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of
places and the people who identify with them. With research that
spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in
this volume add broadly to knowledge about status and prestige,
authenticity and belonging, rural-urban relations, and innovation
and change among rural peoples and in rural communities across the
globe.
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of
urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of
society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically
relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status
through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and
cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex
ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of
inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities,
Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society
examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding
ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding
urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared
and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production,
as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural
resources natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this
exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind
in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions,
and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by
Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in
Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been
surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice,
the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the
complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily
intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life,
rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book
will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of
cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics.
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