The Culture of Poverty: A CritiqueEleanor Burke Leacock Papers from a symposium of the American Anthropological Association examining life styles, education, language and other characteristics of the underpriviliged. |
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... effect : The culture of poverty is not only an adaptation to a set of objective conditions of the larger society . Once it comes into existence it tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation because of its effect on the ...
... effect : The culture of poverty is not only an adaptation to a set of objective conditions of the larger society . Once it comes into existence it tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation because of its effect on the ...
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... effect of culture on individual personality , and ( 3 ) the effect in turn that individual personalities in toto have on the further development of culture . 1. Developmental Stages and the Culture of Poverty . Cul- ture - of - poverty ...
... effect of culture on individual personality , and ( 3 ) the effect in turn that individual personalities in toto have on the further development of culture . 1. Developmental Stages and the Culture of Poverty . Cul- ture - of - poverty ...
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... effect because they tend to accent institutional contempt for persons ; they tend to divert our attention from the demeaning effects of our institu- tions and from the ways in which many of them betray not only the increasingly self ...
... effect because they tend to accent institutional contempt for persons ; they tend to divert our attention from the demeaning effects of our institu- tions and from the ways in which many of them betray not only the increasingly self ...
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