SOCI 3451 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: System For Information On Grey Literature In Europe, Federal Housing Administration, Jim Crow Laws
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Ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) i(cid:374)justi(cid:272)e: ho(cid:449) ghetto"s happe(cid:374) dr. david hilfiker. In order to change future child and family poverty need to approach these problems with moral and political committment , urgency and vision. Practice of improving poor people has a long history. Early american reformers traced extreme poverty to intoxication, laziness and other unacceptable behavior. Used pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) poli(cid:272)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d phila(cid:374)throp(cid:455) to ele(cid:448)ate poor people"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ters a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge their behavior. Different sets of behavior blamed for poverty. Later reformers looked to : evangelical religion, temperance legilstaion, punitive poor houses, the for(cid:272)ed (cid:271)reakup of fa(cid:373)ilies, threats of i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)alizatio(cid:374) to (cid:862)i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e poor people(cid:863) Persistent belief that the individual faults of the poor are the primary cause of poverty: Ignorance: lack of training, addiction, laziness, defective character, sexual promiscuity, too many children etc. Primary causes of poverty lie in specific social and historical structures, in forces outside a(cid:374)(cid:455) si(cid:374)gle perso(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol.
