Poverty Knowledge

Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

Alice O'Connor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00917-9 (ISBN)

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This study chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism, to a detached, highly technical analysis of the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the American poor.

Alice O'Connor here chronicles the transformation in the study of poverty from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to the detached, highly technical 1990s analysis of the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the poor. "Poverty Knowledge" is a comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem". It is a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy.

Alice O'Connor was formerly the Assistant Director of the Project on Social Welfare and the American Future at the Ford Foundation, the Director for the Programs on Persistent Urban Poverty and International Migration at the Social Science Research Council, a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. She is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reihe/Serie	Politics and Society in Modern America
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	709 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-00917-1 / 0691009171
ISBN-13	978-0-691-00917-9 / 9780691009179
Zustand	Neuware