Race Poverty and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Jencks: The basic liberal and conservative inclinations.
- The 'Coleman Report'.
- Jencks and West: Liberals operate out of a base of guilt.
- The future of affirmative action.
- Alice Walker's story and its contradictions to West.
- The black community's inability to surmount the moral problems.
- Conclusion.
- References.
Abstract
In his book, race poverty and the underclass, christopher jencks formulates a thesis that is aimed at revealing the short-comings of popular social policy remedies. He addresses options that are based on political ideologies which do not fare well in recognizing the reality of social problems in their totality as they exist today. He censures the quick-fix mentality of liberals as well as the staunch conservatism that adheres to what jencks feels is a judgmental moralist. In his thesis he attempts to answer the question: How have our social remedies fared so far? Are our evaluations of their failure or success based on statistical data? And how do both liberal and conservative policy approaches miss the mark when it comes to fully identifying and rectifying these problems? jencks outlines the basic liberal and conservative inclinations and then uses quantitative data to reveal what is projected by either group, is only their skewed understanding of the situation.
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