The Ghetto Underclass
Subtitle: Social Science Perspectives
Edition: Updated Edition edition
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: August 17, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780803952720
Subjects: Dictionaries; Social issues; Social Stratification; Science; Sociology; Urban poor; Science/Mathematics; Urban policy; Environmental Science; Poverty; Race relations; Science / Environmental Science; Science-Environmental Science; Social Science / Poverty; Inner cities; African Americans; United States
First sentence: DURING the decade of the 1970s, significant changes occurred in ghetto neighborhoods of large central cities; however, they were not carefully monitored or researched by social scientists during the 1970s and early 1980s.