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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... slum neighborhood written up as Street Corner Society , William Foote White reported that a level of organization ... slums . " He continued , " Proceeding by this route , he will find many evidences of conflict and maladjustment ...
... slum neighborhood written up as Street Corner Society , William Foote White reported that a level of organization ... slums . " He continued , " Proceeding by this route , he will find many evidences of conflict and maladjustment ...
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... slum localities are placed against concrete descriptions of named communities , straightforward contradictions ... slum dwellers . Now compare this with a description from a few pages earlier ( p . xxxiii ) : The setting for the ...
... slum localities are placed against concrete descriptions of named communities , straightforward contradictions ... slum dwellers . Now compare this with a description from a few pages earlier ( p . xxxiii ) : The setting for the ...
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... slums [ Lewis ' lumping slums and squatments together is quite clear here ] studied , in which four out of five families were illegal squatters who had built or purchased their homes on government land , in La Esmeralda only about 15 ...
... slums [ Lewis ' lumping slums and squatments together is quite clear here ] studied , in which four out of five families were illegal squatters who had built or purchased their homes on government land , in La Esmeralda only about 15 ...
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