Research Catalog

Title

Potter addition : poverty, family, and kinship in a heartland community / David L. Harvey.

Author

Harvey, David L., 1936-

Publication

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©1993.

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Details

Description

x, 326 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Social institutions and social change

Uniform Title

Social institutions and social change

Subject

• Rural families > Middle West > Case studies
• Rural poor > Middle West > Case studies
• Kinship > Middle West > Case studies
• Familles rurales > Midwest (États-Unis) > Études de cas
• Pauvres en milieu rural > Midwest (États-Unis) > Études de cas
• Parenté > Midwest (États-Unis) > Études de cas
• Kinship
• Rural conditions
• Rural families
• Rural poor
• Armut
• Soziale Situation
• Stadtrand
• Fallstudiensammlung
• Verwantschap
• Platteland
• Armoede
• Armut
• Stadtrand
• Soziale Situation
• Fallstudiensammlung
• Middle West > Rural conditions > Case studies
• Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions rurales > Études de cas
• Middle West
• USA > Mittlerer Westen
• Mittlerer Westen
• Kinship Middle Case studies
• Middle Rural Case studies
• Rural Middle Case studies

Genre/Form

• Fallstudiensammlung
• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and indexes.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- 1 First Impressions and Second Thoughts (starting p. 1) -- 2 The Social Reproduction of Poverty (starting p. 11) -- Conventional and Critical Problematics (starting p. 13) -- Variable Environments (starting p. 20) -- The Culture of Poverty and Variable Environments (starting p. 25) -- 3 Potter Addition (starting p. 33) -- Grand Prairie (starting p. 33) -- The Ecological Setting of Community (starting p. 34) -- Surplus Populations (starting p. 36) -- The Material Infrastructure of Community (starting p. 41) -- The Material Culture of Potter Addition (starting p. 45) -- The Junkyards (starting p. 51) -- Betty's Market (starting p. 52) -- The Question of Class (starting p. 55) -- 4 The World of Work (starting p. 59) -- Disorderly Careers in Potter Addition (starting p. 60) -- The Jack-of-All-Trades (starting p. 66) -- Lower-Class Work Values (starting p. 68) -- 5 Labor, Leisure, and Ideology (starting p. 73) -- Leisure Time Farming (starting p. 75) -- The Car Cult (starting p. 81) -- The Subjective Reproduction of Male Morale (starting p. 89) -- 6 Saving and Spending (starting p. 93) -- Variable Environments and the Economic Conservatism of the Poor (starting p. 93) -- Variable Environments and "Nigger-Rich" Life-Styles (starting p. 99) -- Mining the Interstices (starting p. 100) -- Alternative Economies (starting p. 106) -- 7 The Uxoricentric Family (starting p. 119) -- The Parsonsian Model (starting p. 120) -- The Jural Default of the Husband (starting p. 124) -- The Husband as Affine (starting p. 130) -- Protracted Intimacies: Mothers and Daughters (starting p. 135) -- 8 The Antinomies of Family Life (starting p. 147) -- Generational Compression (starting p. 147) -- The Dialectics of Uxoricentric Family Life (starting p. 156) -- 9 The Dialectics of Lower-Class Kinship (starting p. 165) -- The Structure of the Personal Kindred (starting p. 166) -- Kinship as Ideology (starting p. 170) -- Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship Systems (starting p. 173) -- Centripetal and Centrifugal Kinship in Clay County (starting p. 175) -- Open and Closed Households in Potter Addition (starting p. 178) -- The Merging of Households (starting p. 182) -- The Iron Cage of Reciprocity (starting p. 185) -- 10 The Moral Foundation of Lower-Class Kinship (starting p. 193) -- The Axiom of Kinship Amity (starting p. 193) -- Merged and Amalgamated Identities (starting p. 196) -- Affinal Struggles (starting p. 201) -- 11 The Social Construction of the Kindred: Sibling-Based Descent Groups (starting p. 209) -- Potter Addition's Descent Groups (starting p. 209) -- The Birth of the Sibling-Based Kindred: The Story of Mary Graham (starting p. 210) -- The Brother as Ex-Officio Family Member (starting p. 218) -- Minimalist Kinship (starting p. 219) -- 12 Uxoricentric Descent Groups (starting p. 225) -- The Synthetic Nature of Uxoricentric Kinship (starting p. 225) -- Lower-Class Kinship as a Whole (starting p. 233) -- 13 Potter Addition Today (starting p. 237) -- The Corporate University (starting p. 238) -- Grand Prairie (starting p. 242) -- Clay County and Its Small Towns (starting p. 245) -- Clay County's Farmers (starting p. 247) -- Persistent Poverty (starting p. 249) -- The Changing Face of Poverty (starting p. 251) -- Continuities in the Culture of Poverty (starting p. 255) -- The Evolution of Potter Addition's Culture of Poverty (starting p. 259) -- 14 Potter Addition and Its Poverty (starting p. 265) -- Poverty, System, and Social Reproduction (starting p. 265) -- Necessary and Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths to Poverty (starting p. 268) -- The Denial of Class (starting p. 271) -- The Question of Pathology (starting p. 277) -- Notes (starting p. 283) -- References (starting p. 307) -- Author Index (starting p. 317) -- Subject Index (starting p. 321)

ISBN

• 0202304418
• 9780202304410
• 0202304426
• 9780202304427

LCCN

92022422

OCLC

• ocm26055244
• 26055244
• SCSB-8969422

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library