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Populations At Risk In America: Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

Autor George J Demko, Michael C. Jackson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2021
As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches, the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas, including poverty, homelessness, discrimination, and severe inequity, afflict some subgroups of the population more than others, and it is the plight of these at-risk groups—childr
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367299361
ISBN-10: 0367299364
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 148 x 237 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface -- Beyond “Race and Culture”: American Underclasses in the Late Twentieth Century -- Society at Risk in a Society of Organizations -- Social Security and the Construction of an Underclass in the United States -- Poverty and Public Policy in the 1990s -- Inside/Outside: The Dialectics of Homelessness -- Deviance and Human Nature -- Mothers at Risk: The War on Poor Women and Children -- Successful Early Interventions for Children at High Risk for Failure in School -- Native Americans and the Demographic Legacy of Contact -- Sites of Danger and Risk: African Americans Return to the Rural South

Notă biografică

George J. Demko is professor of geography at Dartmouth College Michael C. Jackson is a practicing psychoanalyst and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth.

Descriere

This book provides keen and powerful insights into the problems affecting the "disadvantaged" populations of this nation. The contributors’ informed perspectives are critically important if we are to comprehend the scale and complexity of the obstacles to achieving an "equitable society" in the twenty-first century.