The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton

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Contains new frameworks for analyzing poverty
Features contributions from top experts in the field
An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students
Examines poverty from a worldwide, interdisciplinary perspective

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton

Description

Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level. The volume incorporates many methodological perspectives, including survey research, ethnography, and mixed methods approaches, while the chapters extend beyond the United States to provide a truly global portrait of poverty.

A thorough examination of contemporary poverty, this Handbook is a valuable tool for non-profit practitioners, policy makers, social workers, and students and scholars in the fields of public policy, sociology, political science, international development, anthropology, and economics.

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton

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Foreword: Those Left Behind
Carol Stack
Chapter 1: Introduction
David Brady and Linda M. Burton
SECTION I: CONCEPTS, THEORIES, AND ORIENTING QUESTIONS
Chapter 2: Poverty Measurement
Tim Smeeding
Chapter 3: Structural Violence, Poverty and Social Suffering
Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Paul Farmer
Chapter 4: Capability Deprivation
Rod Hick and Tania Burchardt
Chapter 5: Ideologies and Beliefs About Poverty
Matt Hunt and Heather Bullock
Chapter 6: How Politics and Institutions Shape Poverty and Inequality
David Brady, Agnes Blome and Hanna Kleider
Chapter 7: Linking Poverty and Children's Development: Concepts, Models and Debates
Vonnie McLoyd, Rosanne M. Jocson, and Abigail Williams
SECTION II: CLASSIC DEBATES
Chapter 8: Poverty Knowledge and the History of Poverty Research
Alice O'Connor
Chapter 9: The Discourse of Deservingness: Morality and the Dilemmas of Poverty Relief in Debate and Practice
Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Elyse Kovalsky
Chapter 10 Gender and Poverty
Janet Gornick and Natascia Boeri
Chapter 11 Life, Death, and Resurrections: The Culture and Poverty Perspective
Jessi Streib, Juhi Verma, Whitney E. Welsh, and Linda M. Burton
Chapter 12 The Historical Origins of Poverty in Developing Countries
Sambit Bhattacharyya
Chapter 13 The Dynamics of Poverty
Anirudh Krishna, Public Policy, Duke University
SECTION III: PLACE AND CONTEXT
Chapter 14: People and Places Left Behind: Rural Poverty in the New Century
Daniel T. Lichter and Kai A. Schafft
Chapter 15: Poor Neighborhoods in the Metropolis
Mary Pattillo and John Robinson
Chapter 16: Segregation and the Perpetuation of Disadvantage
Doug Massey
Chapter 17: Urban Poverty, Race and Space
William Julius Wilson
SECTION IV: CAUSES AND THE REPRODUCTION OF POVERTY
Chapter 18: Single and Cohabiting Parents and Poverty
Christina Gibson-Davis
Chapter 19: Job-Finding Among the Poor: Do Social Ties Matter?
Sandra Smith
Chapter 20: Education
Emily Hannum and Yu Xie
Chapter 21: Employment and the Working Poor
Jerome Gautie and Sophie Ponthieux
Chapter 22: Great Escapes and Great Divergences: Growth, Poverty and Income Inequality on a Global Scale
Robert Wade
Chapter 23: Intergenerational Mobility
Liana Fox, Florencia Torche, and Jane Waldfogel
Chapter 24: Economic Performance, Poverty and Inequality in Rich Countries
David Brady and Markus Jäntti
SECTION V: CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 25: Material Deprivation and Consumption
Basak Kus, Brian Nolan, and Christopher T. Whelan
Chapter 26: Hunger and Food Insecurity
Christopher B. Barrett and Erin C. Lentz
Chapter 27: Poverty and Crime
Patrick Sharkey, Max Besbris, and Michael Friedson
Chapter 28: Poverty and Informal Economies
Francois Bonnet and Sudhir Venkatesh
Chapter 29: Social Class, Poverty and the Unequal Burden of Illness and Health
Ronald Angel
SECTION VI: POLICIES, SOLUTIONS, AND RESPONSES
Chapter Aid and Global Poverty
Simon Feeny and Mark McGillivray
Chapter 31: The Welfare States and Poverty
Cheol-Sung Lee and In-Hoe Koo
Chapter 32: Social Policy, Transfers, Programs and Assistance
Laura Lein, Sandra K. Danziger, H. Luke Shaefer, and Amanda Tillotson
Chapter 33: Poor People's Politics
Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite
Chapter 34: Why and When Do Peasants Rebel?
Guillermo Trejo
Chapter 35: Unions and Poverty
Jake Rosenfeld and Jennifer Laird
Chapter 36: Housing Programs
Peter Kemp
Chapter 37: Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Philip Mader
Conclusion: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Poverty
Mark Rank

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton

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Author Information

Edited by David Brady, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, and Edited by Linda M. Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology, Duke University

David Brady is Professor in the School of Public Policy, and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at the University of California, Riverside. He is also affiliated with the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he was Director of the Inequality and Social Policy department from 2012-2015. He is the author of Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty. Linda M. Burton is Dean of Social Sciences and James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

Contributors:

Ronald Angel, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas.

Chris Barrett, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and David J. Nolan Director of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University.

Max Besbris, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, New York University.

Sambit Bhattacharyya, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex.

Agnes Blome, Research Fellow in the Inequality and Social Policy Department, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Natascia Boeri, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Francois Bonnet, Assistant Research Professor, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France).

David Brady, Professor of Public Policy, University of California-Riverside; and Director of Inequality and Social Policy Department, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Heather Bullock, Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of California- Santa Cruz.

Tania Burchardt, Deputy Director of CASE and Senior Lecturer of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Linda Burton, Dean of Social Sciences and James B. Duke Professor of Sociology, Duke University.

Alice O'Connor, Professor of History, University of California-Santa Barbara.

Sandra Danziger, Professor of Social Work, and Research Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.

Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University.

Simon Feeny, Associate Professor of International Development, Deakin University.

Liana Fox, Post-doctoral Fellow, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), University of Stockholm.

Michael Friedson, Post-doctoral Fellow, New York University.

Jerome Gautie, Professor of Economics, University of Paris.

Christina Gibson-Davis, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Neuroscience, and Sociology, Duke University.

Janet Gornick, Director of Luxembourg Income Study Center, and Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Emily Hannum, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Pennsylvania.

Rod Hick, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Cardiff.

Matthew Hunt, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Northeastern University.

Markus Jantti, Professor of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.

Rosanne M. Jocson, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, University of Michigan.

Peter Kemp, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Public Policy, University of Oxford.

Hanna Kleider, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia.

In-Hoe Koo, Professor of Social Welfare, Seoul National University.

Elyse Kovalsky, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, Northwestern University.

Anirudh Krishna, Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy, Duke University.

Basak Kus, Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University.

Jennifer Laird, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of Washington.

Cheol-Sung Lee, Associate Professor for Sociology, University of Chicago.

Laura Lein, Katherine Reebel Collegiate Professor of Social Work, Dean and Professor of Social Work, and Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Daniel Lichter, Director of Cornell Population Center, Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University.

Erin Lentz, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas.

Phil Mader, Researcher in Sociology, University of Basel.

Doug Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.

Mark McGillivray, Research Professor in International Development, Deakin University.

Vonnie McLoyd, Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan.

Lorraine C. Minnite, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University.

Brian Nolan, Professor of Social Policy, and Director of Employment, Equity, and Growth Programme, University of Oxford.

Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University.

Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Sophie Ponthieux, Senior Researcher, Insee, Crest.

Mark Rank, Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, Washington University-St. Louis.

John Robinson, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, Northwestern University.

Jake Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University-St. Louis.

Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University.

Kai A. Schafft, Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Penn State Center on Rural Education and Communities, The Pennsylvania State University.

H. Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan.

Patrick Sharkey, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Timothy Smeeding, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin.

Carol Stack, Professor Emeritus, Education, Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley

Jessi Streib, Assistant Professor for Sociology, Duke University.

Amanda Tillotson, Ph.D .Student in Social Work, University of Michigan.

Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor Political Science, University of Notre Dame.

Sudhir Venkatesh, Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.

Juhi Verma, Assistant Professor in School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.

Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jane Waldfogel, Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems, and Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University.

Whitney E. Welsh, Ph.D., Sociology Department and the Social Science Research Institute, Duke University

Chris Whelan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin.

Abigail B. Williams, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, University of Michigan.

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Harvard University.

Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Public Policy, University of Michigan.

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton

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Reviews and Awards

"This book is a useful compendium of writings regarding the nature of poverty. Each of the sections does an effective job of discussing the traditional dimensions of poverty, such as measurement, people versus place, economics versus personal decisions, and policy responses. Readers will find the work useful for understanding the nature of this social problem." - CHOICE

"This book is a useful compendium of writings regarding the nature of poverty. Each of the sections does an effective job of discussing the traditional dimensions of poverty, such as measurement, people versus place, economics versus personal decisions, and policy responses. The hidden gem in this work, however, is the last chapter, which deals with a new paradigm for addressing poverty. Readers will find the work heavily academic but useful for understanding the nature of this social problem." - L. T. Grover, Southern University and A&M College