ISBN:
9781351497558
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Harvey, David L Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community
DDC:
305.5690977
Keywords:
Rural families - Middle West
Abstract:
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 -- Lower-Class Work Values -- 5 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 -- 9 The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship -- The 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
Abstract:
The Birth of the Sibling-Based Kindred: The Story of Mary Graham -- The 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 -- Necessary and Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths to Poverty -- The Denial of Class -- The Question of Pathology -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
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