Sociology Of Poverty Research Articles

The social disintegration from a mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative analysis

This paper aims to analyze, through a quantitative and qualitative approach, social categories related to vulnerability. This reflection is based on the analysis of concepts that are part of the sociology of poverty, exclusion, and social vulnerability, with contributions from the theory of intersectionality and the concept of social disintegration. Through this approach, vulnerability is a plural concept that results from the intersection of social positions, life experiences, and skills. In addition to the analysis of secondary data, the characteristics of social groups in situations of vulnerability will be examined through interviews with professionals who carry out their daily monitoring. The results indicate that social vulnerability results from the intersection of socio-demographic and economic factors that weaken the educational and professional trajectory of people in situations of vulnerability, particularly about their social and emotional competencies.

Sociology of Poverty and Sociological Assessment of the Poverty Alleviation Program

Officially, the poverty line in Russia is tied to the subsistence minimum but from the sociological point of view, its linkage to the subsistence minimum is arbitrary. The subject of the research is social boundaries, social space of poverty. The purpose of the research was to formulate the principles of an approach to overcoming poverty as a social phenomenon. The paper attempts to outline the social space of poverty as an attribute (stigma) by which a person is placed in a specific exclusion space that forms the specific ethos of poverty and the poor man’s habitus preventing any attempts to climb out of poverty. Belonging to this space institutionalizes the poor as a “kind of people”, which is reflected in specific mechanisms of referencing and self-referencing of poverty expressed in the life-purpose deficits. “Combating poverty” implies the creation of participation institutions through which relations and processes of social differentiation, social participation and reference are withdrawn from the dictate of economic factors. It is concluded that the poverty alleviation program should take into account the social limology of poverty and include the development of participation practices and institutions that exclude the stigmatization of poverty and the transformation of the poor into the “kind of people”. Such institutions should provide the poor with ample opportunities to participate in the formation of elites (professional, intellectual, and political). It is particularly important that children, teenagers and young people have access to such practices and institutions because each generation produces and reproduces the “social topology” in which poverty forms a specific “exclusion space”.

Sociology of poverty: Some conceptual issues

The gradual shift from material deprivation to social deprivation has broadened the concept of poverty. This provides scope for further refining the concept, to which sociologists can contribute substantially. While British and American sociologists are working on poverty as a core issue, Indian sociologists have left poverty studies to the exclusive domain of economists and statisticians.

Un point sur les premiers travaux sociologiques français à propos des sans-domicile fixes

An overview of the first French sociological works on the homeless Since the 1990’ s, research on homeless people has been developed in France. This article reports the first qualitative approaches, most of them supported by the research branch of the French Housing Department, the Plan Urbain. To understand such a "social problem”, we first need to describe thoroughly the diversity of social circumstances in which the homeless find themselves, while keeping in mind the views of the people being interviewed. This paper summarizes the contributions and the limits of this work, placing it within its social context as well as noting its relationship with the sociology of poverty. We focus on the effects of survival in the streets as well as the relationships between the homeless and the social services. We think it is important to understand the changes in identity faced by the homeless, due not only to their living conditions but also to the methods of social welfare developed for them.

Brian Kingzett Taylor, Imagine No Possession: Towards a Sociology of Poverty, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1990. 217 pp. £30.00. paper £8.95. - Saul Becker and Richard Silburn, The New Poor Clients: Social Work, Poverty and the Social Fund, Community Care, Waltington, 1990. 90 pp. paper £7.50.

Brian Kingzett Taylor, Imagine No Possession: Towards a Sociology of Poverty, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1990. 217 pp. £30.00. paper £8.95. - Saul Becker and Richard Silburn, The New Poor Clients: Social Work, Poverty and the Social Fund, Community Care, Waltington, 1990. 90 pp. paper £7.50.

Growing Up Poor. By Terry Williams and William Kornblum. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington Books, 1985. 160 pp. $17.00 cloth, $8.95 paper and Sociology of Poverty in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by H. Paul Chalfant. Westport

Journal Article Growing Up Poor. By Terry Williams and William Kornblum. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington Books, 1985. 160 pp. $17.00 cloth, $8.95 paper and Sociology of Poverty in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by H. Paul Chalfant. Westport Get access Growing Up Poor. By Williams Terry and Kornblum William. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington Books, 1985. 160 pp. $17.00 cloth, $8.95 paper. Sociology of Poverty in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Chalfant H. Paul. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. 187 pp. $35.00. Lawrence S. Root Lawrence S. Root School of Social Work University of MichiganAnn Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 1, January-February 1987, Page 91, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/32.1.91 Published: 01 January 1987

Sociology of Poverty in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography.

Sociology of Poverty in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography.

On the need for a sociology of poverty: comments on the state of research on poverty in the United Kingdom

On the need for a sociology of poverty: comments on the state of research on poverty in the United Kingdom

Book Review: The Sociology of Poverty

Book Review: The Sociology of Poverty

Origins of Sociology: The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment

Historians of sociology frequently locate its origins in the early years of the nineteenth century and especially in the work of Comte, Mill and Le Play.' They argue that with the growth of a rigorous method in social research and an increasing knowledge of both industrial and non-industrial societies, sociology gradually emerged as an autonomous and disciplined science. In this 'drive towards objectivity'2 sociology sheds its ideological character and polemical intent, and, working in many directions strives for an objective, unbiased and scientific understanding of the social world. Thus British sociology, originating in early nineteenth-century statistics and surveys and strongly motivated by a desire to improve industrial society, especially its working-class segments tended to lose its direction after Spencer and become fragmented into social administration and the study of eugenics. Abrams has recently argued that it was not until the 1930s that British sociology recovered its scientific elan through a direct and negative confrontation with the eugenicist argument thus providing it with its contemporary character: a dominant concern with demography, educational opportunity, mobility and the sociology of poverty.3 So much for the myth. It seems most improbable that an automatic conversion to unsullied objectivity about human society occurs simply because of increasing specialization and sophisticated techniques of data gathering, for as soon as sociology attempts reintegration of its limited empirical findings with a conception of society as a whole and as a process then the work becomes problematic. For the sociologist comes to any study with a perspective and a core of values and as the sociology of knowledge has convincingly shown, perspectives and values have a social referent which lends them the character of an ideology. It is precisely perspective and values which are likely to penetrate the problem of social significance which underpins all empirical research. If this is so, then the history of social theory itself becomes problematic and that instead of some kind of evolutionary march to objectivity one should pose the concept of the broken line: that at different historical moments certain doctrines and theories which will attempt to ascribe

The Health and Education of the Economically Deprived Child, by Sol Adler, Ph.D. St. Louis: Warren H. Green, Inc. (10 South Brentwood Boulevard), 1968, 170 pp., $7.50

The author of this timely, compact, well documented book of 170 pages is a skilled technician in audiology and speech pathology. He is also a humanist who pulls no punches in stressing the ineffectiveness of current health and educational programs to "help economically deprived youth participate more fully in democracy's presupposed equality of opportunity." Assuming correctly the unfamiliarity of most physicians with medical sociology, the author first outlines a short clinical introduction to the sociology of poverty and the serious impact this can have on the mental, physical, and emotional health of the deprived child.