O'Connor Poverty Knowledge

Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2474-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Politics and Society in Modern America

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Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

PART ONE 23

Chapter 1. Origins: Poverty and Social Science in The Era of Progressive Reform 25

Chapter 2. Poverty Knowledge as Cultural Critique: The Great Depression 55

Chapter 3. From the Deep South to the Dark Ghetto: Poverty Knowledge, Racial Liberalism, and Cultural "Pathology" 74

Chapter 4. Giving Birth to a "Culture of Poverty": Poverty Knowledge in Postwar Behavioral Science, Culture, and Ideology 99

Chapter 5. Community Action 124

PART TWO 137

Chapter 6. In the Midst of Plenty: The Political Economy of Poverty in the Affluent Society 139

Chapter 7. Fighting Poverty with Knowledge: The Office of Economic Opportunity and the Analytic Revolution in Government 166

Chapter 8. Poverty's Culture Wars 196

PART THREE 211

Chapter 9. The Poverty Research Industry 213

Chapter 10. Dependency, the "Underclass," and a New Welfare "Consensus": Poverty Knowledge for a Post-Liberal, Postindustrial Era 242

Chapter 11. The End of Welfare and the Case for a New Poverty Knowledge 284

Notes 297

Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

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.