Deborah Belle (Boston University), Heather E. Bullock (Santa Cruz University of California)

The Psychology of Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook is among the first to examine poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective. It provides an intersectional analysis of economic inequality and focuses on real-world solutions, while exercises and reflection questions encourage students think critically abwhat research findings imply for their own lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 391
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 182mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 1024g
• ISBN-13: 9781108486149
• ISBN-10: 1108486142
• Artikelnr.: 65551451

Autorenporträt

Deborah Belle is Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her books include Lives in stress: Women and depression; Children's social networks and social support; and The after-school lives of children: Alone and with others while parents work. She has been a William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Mental Health of Children; Evelyn Green Davis Fellow in Psychology at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; and Fellow of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contemporary Economic Inequalities
2. Beliefs about social class, poverty, and wealth
3. Classist stigma, exclusion, and disrespect
4. Poverty and its Costs
5. Working Class: The Essential Workers
6. Wealth and its Costs
7. Societal Economic Inequality
8. Race and Racism
9. Gender and poverty
10. Housing Precarity and Homelessness
11. Parenting While Poor
12. Social Networks and Social Supports
13. Poverty, Psychology, and Mental Health Services
14. Working Toward Equality and Economic Justice.