https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Culture-of-Poverty https://booksandideas.net/The-Culture-of-Poverty 2010-10-06T17:12:21Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society United States of America inequalities anthropology poverty Revue des revues <span class="caps">FMSH</span> popular culture symbolic boundaries <p>A special issue of the journal <i>Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</i> edited by the American sociologists David J. Harding, Michèle Lamont, and Mario L. Small examines the relations between culture and poverty. The authors return to “the culture of poverty,” a concept that became taboo in the 1970s because of its conservative and racist recuperation. Their pluralist and supple view of culture allows them to untie the knot between culture and race that feeds conservative rhetoric.</p>