Kerry C. Woodward

Pimping the Welfare System

Empowering Participants with Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

Pimping the System is an ethnographic study of two welfare offices that empowered welfare-reliant women by providing dominant economic, social, and cultural capital in ways that acknowledged and respected the types of capital participants already possessed. It highlights ways that policy makers and front-line workers can best assist welfare participants, and shows the potential for welfare programs to be sites of individual and community empowerment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168820
• ISBN-10: 0739168827
• Artikelnr.: 36908174

Autorenporträt

Kerry C. Woodward is assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: An Empowering Approach to Welfare Programs
Chapter 1: Beyond "Work First": Repressive vs. Empowering Welfare Programs
Chapter 2: Encouraging Work, Discouraging the Hustle: Economic Capital
Chapter 3: Bridging and Bonding: Social Capital Chapter 4: Pedagogy
Matters: Cultural Capital Chapter 5: Education vs. Therapy: Comparing
Lewiston and Strafford Conclusion: Making the Best of a Bad Policy Notes
References Index