Poverty Knowledge (eBook)

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

Alice O'Connor (Autor)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2474-8 (ISBN)

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O'ConnorAlice:

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.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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Allison Davis • americans • An American Dilemma • anthropologist • Black Metropolis • black people • Breakup • Capitalism • Criticism • cultural deprivation • culture of poverty • Deviance (sociology) • disadvantage • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economic planning • economic problem • Economic Restructuring • Economics • economist • economy • Employment • ethnography • Exclusion • family income • Ford Foundation • Funding • Gender Role • Government • Gunnar Myrdal • Household • Ideology • income • income distribution • Institution • Juvenile Delinquency • Keynesian Economics • Legislation • Macroeconomics • MDRC • minority group • National Science Foundation • Negative Income Tax • Office of Economic Opportunity • Oppression • Oscar Lewis • philanthropy • policy analysis • policy debate • political agenda • Political Economy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Poverty • poverty in the United States • poverty reduction • Prejudice • Progressive Era • Psychology • Racism • Recession • Russell Sage Foundation • Slavery • Slum • Social Anthropology • Social Class • Social Disorganization Theory • Social engineering (political science) • Social Inequality • social issue • social liberalism • Social Policy • Social Psychology • Social Research • Social Science • Social Science Research Council • Sociology • Sociology of race and ethnic relations • structural inequality • structural unemployment • Subculture • Tax • The Affluent Society • Trade Union • underclass • Unemployment • Urban renewal • War on Poverty • Wealth • welfare • welfare dependency • Welfare reform • Welfare State • William Julius Wilson • W. Lloyd Warner • Workforce • Working Class • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2474-5 / 1400824745
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2474-8 / 9781400824748