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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part I Culture of Development; 1 Theorizing Poverty of Culture: Requiem for Change; 2 Development Delusion; 3 Entropy of Developmentalism; 4 The Politics of Development; Part II TheMind of Darkness; Part III Transformative Social Policy; 5 End of the Third World; 6 The Rise of the Rest; 7 The Evil of Banality; 8 India's New Caste War: The Archeology of a Perpetual Conflict; 9 The Ordeal of Reason; 10 Social Intervention Revisited: Toward a Science of Change |
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11 Rethinking International SocialWork12 Social Practice in Troubled Times: Limits of Imagination; 13 New Social Development: A Paradigm Shift; 14 Human Rights Today; 15 Idiom of Change: The Future of Social Sciences; Epilogue: Culture as a Defensive Spider; Index |
| Summary |
The "cycle of poverty," a myth manufactured and sustained by the Parsonian pundits of social theory and welfare, has blamed the victims of oppression with impunity. Brij Mohan deconstructs Oscar Lewis' culture of poverty theory and its applications in the fields of social welfare, policy, and development. Poverty, a global scourge, is defined as a political rather than an economic issue. The implications of this formulation paradigmatically shift the focus of discourse in the social sciences. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that d |
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Print version record |
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Poverty -- Political aspects
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Social change.
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Socialism.
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International cooperation.
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International Cooperation
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Social issues & processes.
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International relations.
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Society.
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International cooperation
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Poverty -- Political aspects
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Social change
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Socialism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gil, David G
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| ISBN |
9780230117655 |
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0230117651 |
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1283067064 |
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9781283067065 |
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