Poverty and Power

The Problem of Structural Inequality

Edward Royce (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2022 | Fourth Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6756-4 (ISBN)

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Poverty and Power examines structural inequality in American society by focusing on the persistence of poverty, resulting from failings of our political, economic, cultural, and social systems.

Many Americans believe that people are poor because of individual failings, such as lack of skills or work ethic. Poverty and Power challenges this view, showing that American poverty instead is a structural problem, resulting from failings of our political, economic, cultural, and social systems. The book examines the social forces and institutional problems that contribute to growing inequality and the persistence of poverty in the United States. Throughout the book, the author compares individualistic and structural approaches and makes a case that a structural perspective on American poverty is the best explanation of the persistent inequalities and disparities that hold back progress and advancement for the country.

The fourth edition features new material throughout, including discussions of how poverty intersects with race, ethnicity, and gender; the divisive, growing political and cultural polarization in the country and its impacts on structural poverty; the exacerbating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on structural poverty; and the role of social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and the backlash of white nationalism as they relate to structural poverty.

Edward Royce is professor emeritus of sociology at Rollins College, where he was a recipient of the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award. In addition to Poverty and Power, he is also the author of The Origins of Southern Sharecropping (1993) and Classical Social Theory and Modern Society: Marx, Durkheim, Weber (2015). He currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Brief Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Poverty as a Social Problem

Part I: Individualistic Theories of Poverty and Inequality

2. The Biogenetic Theory of Poverty and Inequality

3. The Cultural Theory of Poverty and Inequality

4. The Human Capital Theory of Poverty and Inequality

Part II: A Structural Perspective on Poverty—Four Systems

5. The Economic System and Poverty

6. The Political System and Poverty

7. The Cultural System and Poverty

8. The Social System and Poverty

Part III: A Structural Perspective on Poverty—Ten Obstacles

9. Structural Obstacles and the Persistence of Poverty (Part I)

10. Structural Obstacles and the Persistence of Poverty (Part II)

11. Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; Tables
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5381-6756-5 / 1538167565
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-6756-4 / 9781538167564
Zustand	Neuware