GGR254H1 Lecture : lec__
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The urban underclass: what is the underclass, homelessness, poverty, what is the underclass(look at slide) Charles murray/lawrence mead=both wrote very important books on class and they wrote books which attempted to try and understand the underclass as a phenomenon in contemporary america/both are right wing i. e. like stephen harper equivalent in canada. They argued that there was a growing population in american citites who were becoming a permanent minority. And that this growing minority were at the lower end of the social scale , and were extremely poor and the created a culture of poverty. They thought that the poor were responsible for their own poverty=culture poverty. L. a. riots=these people are able to be living in these conditions because they depend on welfare/they take advantage of the state. They argued that since the 1960"s that people were taking advantage of the welfare state and were taking advantage.
