| Description |
382 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Language, life style and education among the poor Cognitive styles and class stereotypes / Ernest Drucker -- Language and educability / Vera P. John -- Untapped verbal fluency of Black schoolchildren / Janet Castro -- The teacher is also a victim / Jean Lester -- Cultural deprivation as an educational ideology / Murray L. Wax and Rosalie H. Wax -- The integrity of the Cherokee student / Mildred Dickeman -- The Danish Friskoler and community control / Estelle Fuchs -- pt. 2. Theoretical and methodological problems with the "culture of poverty" concept The "culture of poverty": its scientific significance and its implications for action / Charles A. Valentine -- The concept of the "culture of poverty": conceptual, logical, and empirical problems, with perspectives from Brazil and Peru / Anthony Leeds -- The structural parameters of emerging life styles in Venezuela / Lisa R. Peattie -- "Gowster", "ivy-leaguer", "hustler", "conservative", "mackman", and "continental": a functional analysis of six ghetto roles / Herbert C. Ellis and Stanley M. Newman -- The stranger mentality and the culture of poverty / Rolland H. Wright -- Poverty and interdependency / Murray L. Wax -- Culture of poverty?: what does it matter? / Hylan Lewis |
| Summary |
Papers from a symposium of the American Anthropological Association examining life styles, education, language and other characteristics of the underpriviliged |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Poor -- United States.
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Social groups.
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Poverty.
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| Author |
Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987, editor
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| LC no. |
75139640 |
| ISBN |
0671208454 |
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