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E. Brooke Kelly, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Tracy L. Vargas, Julia Waity - Understanding Poverty through Lived Experiences, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Understanding Poverty through Lived Experiences

Av E. Brooke Kelly, Matthew Jerome Schneider, Tracy L. Vargas, Julia Waity

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Within the last few years, COVID-19, environmental disasters, the housing affordability crisis, increased homelessness, and inflation have brought poverty in the United States into sharper focus. Gaining an understanding of poverty necessitates not only an examination of macro trends and patterns, but also insights into people’s everyday experiences at the micro-level. This reader brings together key topics such as food, housing, and health insecurities; spatial and environmental inequalities; employment and low wage work; social institutions; discrimination; and social change to make the study of poverty more accessible to students. It emphasizes that many kinds of people experience poverty, but also highlights how racism, sexism, homophobia, age, family structure, geographic location and other social forces can increase economic vulnerability and create barriers to economic mobility. The book opens with an introduction that defines poverty in the U.S. while also discussing the importance of looking beyond statistics and trends. Discussion questions at the end of each reading encourage critical thinking and reinforce key ideas.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-15
  • Mått: 176 x 252 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 560 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9798881801519
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E. Brooke Kelly is professor of sociology and assistant chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice at University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She is the co-editor Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America’s Poor. She is former fellow and research affiliate of the Rural Policy Research Institute's Rural Poverty Center.Matthew Jerome Schneider is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of Serving the Street: Volunteering as Charity, Racial Justice, and Poverty Tourism.Tracy L. Vargas is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She is vice chair of the Society for Social Problems Labor Studies Division.Julia Waity is professor and chair of the department of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is the co-editor of Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America’s Poor.

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This powerful collection takes care to center the voices and experiences of people living precarious economic lives and situates them within the systems that shape and constrain their actual opportunities and the choices available to them, rather than the options they are imaged to have in too much commentary on poverty. An enormously valuable collection of powerful stories that reveals over and over again what we cannot learn from quantitative data alone.

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