Psychological factors in poverty.
By: Edited by Vernon L. Allen.
Series: Institute for Research on Poverty monograph series
Publisher: Markham Pub. Co.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Poverty -- Psychological aspects.; Poverty.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Neutralizing the disinherited, by L. Rainwater.; title: The culture of poverty, social identity, and cognitive outcomes, by T. R. Sarbin.; title: Poverty versus equality of opportunity, by J. M. Hunt.; title: The transmission of cognitive strategies in poor families, by R. D. Hess.; title: A new approach to the study of school motivation in minority group children, by I. Katz.; title: Learning ability, intelligence, and educability, by A. R. Jensen.; title: A "try simplest cases" approach to the heredity-poverty-crime problem, by W. Shockley.; title: Do genetic factors contribute to poverty? By J. F. Crow.; title: Genetic factors in poverty, by S. G. Vandenberg.; title: Children of the city, by T. S. Langner, and others.; title: The psychological costs of quality and equality in education, by U. Bronfenbrenner.; title: Economic aspects of poverty, by D. Caplovitz.; title: Personality correlates of poverty, by V. L. Allen.; title: An expectancy approach to job training programs, by G. Gurin.; title: Poverty and motivation, by U. Pareek.; title: Some theoretical and practical problems in compensatory education as an antidote to poverty, by E. W. Gordon.; title: The role of motivation and self-image in social change in slum areas, by M. B. Clinard.; title: The poverty of psychology, by A. Pearl.; title: The psychology of poverty, by V. L. Allen.