 The culture of poverty, however, is not only an adaptation to a set of objective conditions of the larger society. Once it comes into existence it tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation because of its effect on the children. By the time...  Social Security Bulletin - Page 101967Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1967 - 1270 pages
...generation because of its effects on the children." "By the time . . . children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...not psychologically geared to take full advantage of the changing or increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime" (p. XIV). and cultural development... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1967 - 604 pages
...generation because of its effects on the children" "By the time . . . children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...not psychologically geared to take full advantage of the changing or increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime" (p. XIV) . I believe that... | |
 | Susan M. Rigdon, Oscar Lewis - 1988 - 362 pages
...terms the way in which the culture perpetuated itself: "By the time slum children are age six or seven they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime" (emphasis added).20 Here, again, he identified the culture with a place, that is, a slum, something... | |
 | Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson - 2001 - 508 pages
...reduces their motivation to succeed in the labor market. "By the time slum children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...or increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime."5 Although Lewis later modified his position, the idea that deeply ingrained habits prevent... | |
 | David L. Harvey - 1993 - 340 pages
...to generation because of its effect on the children. By the time slum children are age six or seven they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime. Most frequently the culture of poverty develops when a stratified social and economic system is breaking... | |
 | Chicago Assembly - 1993 - 388 pages
...reduces their motivation to succeed in the labor market. "By the time slum children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime" (Lewis, 1968, p. 188). A variant of this view argues that current welfare policy encourages low-income... | |
 | Donald F. Kettl - 2011 - 236 pages
...reduces their motivation to succeed in the labor market. "By the time slum children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...or increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime."5 Although Lewis later modified his position, the idea that deeply ingrained habits prevent... | |
 | Mark R. Rank - 1994 - 292 pages
...generation to generation because of its effects on children. By the time slum children are age six or seven, they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...increased opportunities which may occur in their lifetime. (1969:188) Or, as Moynihan wrote with regard to black Americans, "Three centuries of injustice have... | |
 | Anthony Giddens - 1994 - 292 pages
...stratified, highly individuated, capitalistic society'. Even by the age of six or seven slum children 'have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes...opportunities which may occur in their lifetime'. 13 Welfare dependency can become linked to cultures of poverty; what we should be careful not to do... | |
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