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An Overview of Housing and Urban Revitalization

by Nicole Smith Sociology • Comments Closed • The Classic Slum, Post-Katrina, Living in Urban Versus Rural Areas, Institutionalized Robbery, American Educational System

The nature of urban revitalization and housing has changed a great deal over the course of the past century. Several plans to achieve a balance between the urban middle class and the poor have been instituted, but most of these →

Extended Definition and Analysis of Insular Poverty in the United States

by Nicole Smith Sociology • Comments Closed • The Classic Slum, Post-Katrina, Weaknesses and Problems, Living in Urban Versus Rural Areas, Institutionalized Robbery

Academic economist Kenneth Galbraith coined the term “insular poverty” in1969 as a means of distinguishing poverty of groups from individual poverty, which he termed case poverty (97; 325-327). According to Galbraith, case poverty refers to individuals who are poor because →

The Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on Families in New England & America

by Nicole Smith North America • Comments Closed • The Economics of Socialism, Marx and Locke, Major Events and Trends, The Classic Slum

There is no doubt that the coming of industrialization in New England dramatically altered the ways families of the time were connected, communicated, and supported one another. With the rapid shift away from more localized family-based agrarian or small business →

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An Overview of Housing and Urban Revitalization

Extended Definition and Analysis of Insular Poverty in the United States

The Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on Families in New England & America