Underclass i kultura ubóstwa w badaniach nad rozwojem kompetencji moralnych i społecznych w środowiskach ludzi ubogich
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2018
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii UAM
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Underclass, Culture of Poverty and the Research in Sociomoral Competence among the Poor
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In this paper, I consider whether a theoretically defined concept of underclass
can be helpful in social scientific discourse. I analyze, review and categorize the concept
of a underclass and I made some suggestions for a use of the concept application in
the study of social, psychological and moral consequences of poverty. It begins with a
discussion of the continuing and pervasive appeal of structural explanations as the
root cause of poverty. Then are also examined cultural theories, which by contrast find
explanation for poverty in various elements of culture (ex. cultural traits of poor are
thought to be different from those of the rest society). A third, a synthetic review of the
urban underclass concept is explored. The article also describes the concept of a „culture
of poverty” (taking into account the context of the subculture) and „lower class value
stretch” as influential concepts in analyses of contemporary poverty and in explanations
of the behavior of the poor.
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underclass, culture od poverty, morality, value stretch, contemporary society
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Ethics in Progress, Volume 9 (2018), Issue 1, pp. 62-98.