Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare

List of contents

1: First Impressions and Second Thoughts; 2: The Social Reproduction of Poverty; 3: Potter Addition; 4: The World of Work; 5: Labor, Leisure, and Ideology; 6: Saving and Spending; 7: The Uxoricentric Family; 8: The Antinomies of Family Life; 9: The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship; 10: The Moral Foundations of Lower-Class Kinship; 11: The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups; 12: Uxoricentric Descent Groups; 13: Potter Addition Today; 14: Potter Addition and its Poverty

About the author

David L. Harvey

Summary

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare

Product details

• Authors: David L. Harvey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138530553
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53055-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life