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Culture of Poverty

By: Patricia E. Erickson
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities

Social scientists credit Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), an American anthropologist, with introducing the concept of a culture of poverty. He first suggested it in 1959 in his book, Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty. ...

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  Erickson, P. (2003). Culture of poverty. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 366-368). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n140
  
  Erickson, Patricia E. "Culture of Poverty." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson, 366-368. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n140.
  
  Erickson, P 2003, 'Culture of poverty', in Christensen, K & Levinson, D (eds), Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 366-368, viewed 28 November 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n140.
  
  Erickson, Patricia E. "Culture of Poverty." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. 366-368. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 28 Nov. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n140.
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