The Ghetto Underclass
Social Science Perspectives
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher SAGE Publications, Inc
- Date of Publication 29 September 1993
- ISBN 9780803952720
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages206 pages
- Size 229 x 152 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume examines the urban underclass from theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives. Focusing strongly on policy, contributors explore such topics as demographic and industrial transitions, family patterns, sexual behaviour, immigration and homelessness. A new introduction updates recent work in the field since publication of the first edition.
MoreLong description:
Sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science William Julius Wilson is a leader in the study of the urban underclass. His controversial thesis states that the fragmentation of the black community along class lines has resulted in a group of blacks who have left the inner city for middle-class suburban life, leaving behind the ghetto underclass of very disadvantaged poor. This thesis has had an enormous impact on the study of urban life, race, and society. Originally published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The Ghetto Underclass addresses questions from theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives. Wilson and other leading social scientists cover demographic and industrial transitions, family patterns, sexual behavior, immigration, and homelessness of the urban underclass. Wilson's introduction updates recent work on this topic since publication of the Annals issue. The Ghetto Underclass should be read by all students and professionals of urban studies, ethnic studies, sociology, policy studies, political science, social work, social welfare, and education.
MoreTable of Contents:
The Underclass - William Julius Wilson
Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy
The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City - Lo[um]ic J D Wacquant and William Julius Wilson
Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass - John D Kasarda
Absent Fathers in the Inner City - Mercer L Sullivan
Sex Codes and Family Life Among Poor Inner-City Youths - Elijah Anderson
Employment and Marriage Among Inner-City Fathers - Mark Testa et al
Single Mothers, The Underclass, and Social Policy - Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel
Puerto Ricans and the Underclass Debate - Marta Tienda
Immigration and the Underclass - Robert D Reischauer
The Urban Homeless - Peter H Rossi and James D Wright
A Portrait of Urban Dislocation
Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor - Jennifer L Hochschild
The Logic of Workfare - Lawrence M Mead
The Underclass and Work Policy
Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass - Richard P Nathan
