Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series)

ISBN 10: 1412988977 / ISBN 13: 9781412988971

Edité par SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

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• Titre: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series)
• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1412988977
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781412988971
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Very Good

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<p>Culture has returned to the poverty research agenda. </p><p></p><p>Over the past decade, sociologists, demographers, and even economists have begun asking questions about the role of cul­ture in many aspects of poverty, at times even explaining the behavior of low-income populations in reference to cultural factors. Unlike their predecessors, contemporary researchers rarely claim that culture will sustain itself for multiple generations regardless of structural changes, and they almost never use the term "pathology," which implied in an earlier era that people would cease to be poor if they changed their culture. The new generation of scholars conceives of culture in substantially different ways. </p><p></p><p>In this latest issue of the <strong>ANNALS</strong>, readers are treated to thought-provoking articles that attempt to bridge the gap between poverty and culture scholarship, highlighting new trends in poverty research. </p><p></p><p>This volume is vital reading, not only for sociologists but also for researchers across the social sciences as a whole. </p>

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Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology, Professor of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Her work has included comparative studies of stigma across different countries, the inner workings of culture and inequality and social change. She has written on areas such as, the ways in which the meanings applied to worth and moral worth shape ethno-racial and class inequality. She has explored the definitions and implications of ‘excellence’ on society and in higher education.

Michèle co-chairs the advisory board to the 2021-22 UN Human Development Report, “Uncertain times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a World in Transformation” and served as the 108^th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, a Gutenberg research award in 2014, the 2017 Erasmus Prize, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for 2019-21.