Title Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community

Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 First Impressions and Second Thoughts; Plan of the Book; 2 The Social Reproduction of Poverty; Conventional and Critical Problematics; Variable Environments; The Culture of Poverty and Variable Environments; 3 Potter Addition; Grand Prairie; The Ecological Setting of Community; Surplus Populations; The Material Infrastructure of Community; The Material Culture of Potter Addition; The Junkyards; Betty's Market; The Question of Class; 4 The World of Work; Disorderly Careers in Potter Addition; The Jack-of-All-Trades Lower-Class Work Values5 Labor, Leisure, and Ideology; Leisure Time Farming; The Car Cult; The Subjective Reproduction of Male Morale; 6 Saving and Spending; Variable Environments and the Economic Conservatism of the Poor; Variable Environments and "Nigger-Rich" Life-Styles; Mining the Interstices; Alternative Economies; 7 The Uxoricentric Family; The Parsonsian Model; The Jurai Default of the Husband; The Husband as Affine; Protracted Intimacies: Mothers and Daughters; 8 The Antinomies of Family Life; Generational Compression; The Dialectics of Uxoricentric Family Life 9 The Dialectics of Lower-Class KinshipThe Structure of the Personal Kindred; Kinship as Ideology; Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship Systems; Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship in Clay County; Open and Closed Households in Potter Addition; The Merging of Households; The Iron Cage of Reciprocity; 10 The Moral Foundation of Lower-Class Kinship; The Axiom of Kinship Amity; Merged and Amalgamated Identities; Affinal Struggles; 11 The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups; Potter Addition's Descent Groups The Birth of the Sibling-Based Kindred: The Story of Mary GrahamThe Brother as Ex-Officio Family Member; Minimalist Kinship; 12 Uxoricentric Descent Groups; The Synthetic Nature of Uxoricentric Kinship; Lower-Class Kinship as a Whole; 13 Potter Addition Today; The Corporate University; Grand Prairie; Clay County and Its Small Towns; Clay County's Farmers; Persistent Poverty; The Changing Face of Poverty; Continuities in the Culture of Poverty; The Evolution of Potter Addition's Culture of Poverty; 14 Potter Addition and Its Poverty; Poverty, System, and Social Reproduction Necessary and Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths to PovertyThe Denial of Class; The Question of Pathology; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index Notes Print version record Subject Rural families -- Middle West -- Case studies Rural poor -- Middle West -- Case studies Kinship -- Middle West -- Case studies Kinship Rural conditions Rural families Rural poor SUBJECT Middle West -- Rural conditions -- Case studies Subject Middle West Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Harvey, David ISBN 9781351497558 1351497553

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