336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." The community consists of some 100 families and is located on the rural-urban fringe of a medium-sized Midwestern city. Poverty,... Read more
1: First Impressions and Second Thoughts; 2: The Social Reproduction of Poverty; 3: Potter Addition; 4: The World of Work; 5: Labor, Leisure, and Ideology; 6: Saving and Spending; 7: The Uxoricentric Family; 8: The Antinomies of Family Life; 9: The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship; 10: The Moral Foundations of Lower-Class Kinship; 11: The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups; 12: Uxoricentric Descent Groups; 13: Potter Addition Today; 14: Potter Addition and its Poverty
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David L. Harvey
