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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Necessary and Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths to PovertyThe Denial of Class; The Question of Pathology; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Rural families -- Middle West -- Case studies
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Rural poor -- Middle West -- Case studies
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Kinship -- Middle West -- Case studies
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Kinship
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Rural conditions
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Rural families
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Rural poor
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SUBJECT |
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- Case studies
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Subject |
Middle West
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Harvey, David
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ISBN |
9781351497558 |
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1351497553 |
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