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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Culture of poverty"”.
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Exploring Culture of Poverty and Life Options Perspectives: The Relationship of Neighborhood, Family, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors to Teen Childbearing
This dissertation explores the relationship of neighborhood, family and individual socioeconomic factors (including work, assets and educational characteristics) to teenage childbearing. Using data from Wilson's (1987) Urban Poverty and Family Life Study, the dissertation explores two theoretical …
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Development of a Parent Education Program for Parents of Children Enrolled in the Head Start Child Development Center Toppenish, Washington
<p>The concern of this study will be to consider the over-all problem: Can planned educational programs for parents help to compensate for some of the deficiencies brought about by the culture of poverty? More specifically will be studied the problem: Can parent education through study-discussion …
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Welfare Reform: The Politics of Redistributive Policy
<p>My analysis will focus on whether the goals of Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reauthorization Act (PRWORA) of 1996 was self-sufficiency or was it designed to eliminate redistributive public policies and the implementation of morality policies. The purpose of this research was to …
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Intersectoral Labor Mobility and Earnings Differentials in Urban Labor Markets: A Case Study of Slum Dwellers in Bangkok (Formal Sector, Informal Sector, Rural-Urban Migration; Thailand)
… dwellers' labor market behavior and the outcomes of the labor market processes in Bangkok. The study assumes the dualistic structure of the labor market in which labor mobility takes place. In less developed countries, rural-urban migration is viewed to contribute to the increase in urban …
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"Living for the City:" : the political meaning of public housing residents' extraordinary struggle
While the particularities of public housing residents' hardships often capture the attention of the national media, less recognized and understood is how public housing residents work to address the instabilities they encounter. Much of the existing literature on public housing provides an …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
During the Great Migration (1916-1970) of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia’s police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to disseminate crime narratives laced with statistics and racial stereotypes of “black invasions,” “urban neighborhood jungles,” “roving black …
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… historical framework, focuses on an analysis of American and English education policy from 1964 to 2000 with particular emphasis on the inter-relationships between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the …
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The pattern, frequency and suitability of informal day care provision for pre-school children in Khayelitsha
… to investigate the structure and function of informal day care provision for pre-school children in Khayelitsha, but the inquiry succeeded in generating information beyond the original assignment. Data was gathered from interviews with active in the day care field and from local agencies …
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Die (Re-)Moralisierung von Armut. Funktionalismus des deutschen Unterschichtendiskurses : eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Kulturalisierung von Armut, wie sie u. a. in der Debatte um die „neue Unterschicht“ zu finden ist
In der sogenannten Unterschichtendebatte von 2006 wurde diskutiert, ob in den vergangenen Jahren eine „neue Unterschicht“ entstanden sei, in der Verwahrlosung, Passivität und Bildungsarmut vorherrsche. Dabei wurde unterstellt, dass die Entstehung dieser „neuen Unterschicht“ auf die Generosität des …
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"The World Bank's risk management approach to poverty as a form of neoliberal governmentality? The case of the ""social risk mitigation project"" in Turkey"
… World Development Report, the World Bank offered a new approach named ‘social risk management’ for poverty reduction. The World Bank documents present the aim of social risk management as to provide instruments to the poor and the vulnerable to decrease the impact of being exposed to risk. …
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Unto The Third & Fourth Generation of African-Americans: Kaleb Norris's Stories of Generational Poverty And Inequality In The South
… explores the cross-generational lived affects of educational, political, and public policies on my paternal family from 1899 to the present in Northern Mississippi and West Tennessee. It is an exploration of my family's history and my lived experience as the first person in the family to obtain …