On understanding poverty
Subtitle: perspectives from the social sciences
Series: Perspectives on Poverty -- 1; Perspectives on Poverty -- 1.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Poor; Poverty; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The professors and the poor  -- Daniel P. Moynihan; title: Class, status, and poverty  -- Peter H. Rossi and Zahava D. Blum; title: Poverty: changing social stratification  -- S.M. Miller and Pamela Roby; title: Inheritance of poverty or inheritance of race?  -- Oti Dudley Duncan; title: Deprivation and migration: dilemmas of causal interpretation  -- Marc Fried; title: Poverty in historical perspective  -- Stephan Thernstrom; title: The culture of poverty  -- Oscar Lewis; title: Culture and class in the study of poverty: an approach to anti-poverty research  -- Herbert J. Gans; title: The problem of lower-class culture and poverty-war strategy  -- Lee Rainwater; title: The elimination of the American lower class as national policy: a critique of the ideology of the poverty movement of the 1960s  -- Walter Miller; title: An economic definition of poverty  -- Harold Watts; title: Identifying the poor: economic measures of poverty -- Gerald Rosenthal.