Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

Small, Mario Luis; Harding, David J.; Lamont, Michèle

doi:10.1177/0002716210362077

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“…Low-SES mothers' provisioning strategies stem not from a disregard for their adolescents' diets or health; completely to the contrary, these parents' approaches reflect a deep desire to care and provide for adolescents amidst constrained material circumstances. This finding adds to mounting scholarship showing that differences in values do not fully explain the connection between socioeconomic status and parenting behaviors (Dohan 2003;Carter 2005;Edin and Kefalas 2005;Wilson 2009;Small, Hardin, and Lamont 2010;Lee and Zhou 2015).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 59%

A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Fielding‐Singh¹

2017

SocScience

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Scholars commonly account for dietary disparities across socioeconomic status (SES) using structural explanations that highlight differences in individuals' wealth, income, or location. These explanations emphasize food's material value. But food also carries symbolic value. This article shows how food's symbolic value helps drive dietary disparities. In-depth interviews with 160 parents and adolescents and 80 hours of observations with four families demonstrate how a family's socioeconomic position in part shapes the meanings that parents attach to food. These differing meanings contribute to distinct feeding strategies across the socioeconomic spectrum: whereas low-SES parents use food to buffer against deprivation, high-SES parents provision food to fulfill classed values around health and parenting. The findings suggest that an understanding of how families' material circumstances shape food's symbolic value is critical to fully account for dietary differences across SES.

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A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Fielding‐Singh¹

2017

SocScience

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“…Továbbá Patterson új publikációja nem csak egy hosszabb esszé, hanem egy közel hétszáz oldalas kötet, amelynek tucatnyi szerzője között közismert kvalitatív és kvantitatív szociológus ugyanúgy található, mint közgazdász és morálfilozófus. Lamont, Patterson és más kollégáik vitáját többek között a Harvard kultúra-témájú műhely-szeminárium sorozata kanalizálja jó pár éve; és az egyetem kutatói már öt éve szerkesztettek szakfolyóirat különszámot is ugyanerről a témáról (Small et al 2010). …”

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“…Míg a korábbi elméleti keretben jelentős szerepet kaptak a koherens, komprehenzív, generációkon átívelő értékrendszerek, a kulturális tanulmányok újabb képviselői azt hangsúlyozzák, hogy szá-mos fontos kulturális jelenség létezik az értékek mellett (és maguk az értékek sem állnak össze koherens rendszerré, ahogy Parsons feltételezte). Sőt, egyesek a kultúra egységes definiálásának a nehézségeit is felvetik; ehelyett különböző, önmagukban jobban megfogható kulturális jelenségeket azonosítanak (Small et al 2010).…”

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A szegénység újratermelődése: A struktúrától a kultúráig, és vissza Gondolatok Orlando Patterson és Ethan Fosse „The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth” című kötete kapcsán

Janky¹

2016

Socio.hu

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“…Geertz unhinged measurement from his preferred qualitative and interpretive method of "thick description." However, the publication of several prominent articles in recent years shows that operationalism is neither dogmatic nor dead, and the principle is compatible with a qualitative approach (e.g., Small et al 2010).…”

Section: Measuring Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring urban sexual cultures

Ghaziani

2014

Theor Soc

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Gay neighborhoods across the United States are de-concentrating in today's so-called "post-gay" era as sexual minorities assimilate into the mainstream and disperse across the city. This context creates a problem of measurement. If by "culture" we mean to say a particular way of life of a group or subgroup of people like sexual minorities, and if that way of life is blending with other aspects of the metropolis, then how can we detect distinct urban sexual cultures? In this article, I use 125 interviews with Chicago residents to propose a two-pronged strategy. First, gay neighborhoods continue to house anchor institutions, despite ongoing residential out-migrations. These are the primary engines of community building, and they locate the material culture of a group in a specific place. Commemorations serve as a second indicator for a culture, and they too put meanings into form. Although it is a fact of city life that all neighborhoods change, anchors and commemorations are analytic devices that scholars can use to observe urban sexual cultures. More generally, they provide a framework for how to measure the shifting geographic profile of a historically stigmatized group as it experiences positive change in public opinion.

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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

Cited by 478 publications

References 56 publications

A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

A szegénység újratermelődése: A struktúrától a kultúráig, és vissza Gondolatok Orlando Patterson és Ethan Fosse „The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth” című kötete kapcsán

Measuring urban sexual cultures

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