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Title: Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks ISBN: 0-06-097534-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Once again, the problem with underclass is family structure
Comment: Christopher Jencks corroborates what so many other social scientists, including Charles Murray (The Bell Curve, Losing Ground), Ken Aluetta (The Underclass)and Daniel Patrick Moynihan have been saying, and that is that social problems of the underclass are behavioral in nature, not just economic. Purely economic "solutions" (paying poor people money) may even exacerbate their tendencies to make poor choices, i.e., become addicted to drugs, commit crimes, have children out of wedlock. The question is, what to do to change attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to these social pathologies? One of the most interesting parts of this book is where Jencks describes what happened in the sixties and seventies in terms of society's attitudes on sexual morality. He says the upper and middle classes were more able to make adjustments to liberalizing attitudes than the lower classes, who were devastated by the "sexual revolution." He says that lower class individuals have a hard time maintaining the discipline and long term thinking required to manage stable family structures anyway. To take away the neighborhood, church, and social constraints on promiscuity and illigitimacy is to devastate the urban poor, and has led to the 70% illigitimacy rate that we are seeing. Clearly, the public schools, who are barred from teaching morals or the religious underpinnings for them, and instead hand out condoms, exacerbate, in my opinion, the family problems of the poor, and hence, all of society.
Rating: 5
Summary: thoughtful and thought-provoking
Comment: I buy this book for friends, assign it to my college students, and read it again every now and then for fun. Does social policy seem overwhelming - the domain of "experts" rather than ordinary people? By following the author's thoughtful analysis of complex issues, the reader cannot help but acquire critical thinking skills. Those skills can be put to good use in other contexts such as voting, evaluating news accounts, etc. Furthermore, the reader will learn interesting new things about topics covered in the book. Most highly recommended
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Title: The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0226901319 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.03 |
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Title: When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0679724176 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 by Charles Murray ISBN: 0465042333 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy by Herbert J. Gans ISBN: 0465019919 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Understanding Poverty by Sheldon H. Danziger, Robert H. Haveman ISBN: 0674008766 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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