Does America Hate the Poor?
The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s
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Product details:
- Publisher Praeger
- Date of Publication 30 September 1998
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780275961329
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 234x155 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves. The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and among the poor themselves, self-hatred.
Two groups of poor are analyzed. The status poor-those at the bottom of America's money, deference, power, education, or occupation (and combinations of those). The status poor embody the truth that, in the land of opportunity, not all succeed. The elderly are the life cycle poor. They are deficient of future, and in the land of opportunity, to have one's own life trajectory circumscribe hope is a condition that must be denied. Poorhate is a classic example of blame the victim. Tropman explores the process of poorhate through data from the 1960s and 1970s, and he uses the past to illuminate the probelms of the present, and, hopefully, to assist in crafting a better future. A provocative work for students and scholars of social welfare policy and policymakers themselves.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Who are the Poor, and Does America Hate Them?
How America Hates the Poor
Poorfare Culture Welfare State
Pictures in Plenty: Conceptions of the Underclass
Laggards and Lushes: Images of the Poor
The Decent Poverty Stricken: Images of the Near Poor
The Overseer of the Poor: View from the County Welfare Office
Mothers: Opinions and Stereotypes
The Life Cycle Poor: Images of the Aged
Images of the Elderly
American Culture and the Aged: Stereotypes and Realties
What the Public Thinks: Older and Younger Adults
Why America Hates the Poor
The Poorfare State: Embodiment and Revelation
Social Exploitation
Mirror of Destiny
References
Bibliography
Index
Does America Hate the Poor?: The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s
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