Abstracts
Abstract
This essay proposes a critical analysis of issues, evidence and policy perspectives pertaining to social structure, culture and agency in the study of race and urban poverty in contemporary American sociology.
Keywords:
- Social structure,
- culture,
- agency,
- race,
- class,
- urban poverty,
- sociology,
- William Julius Wilson,
- Sandra Susan Smith,
- Elizabeth Hinton,
- Robert Sampson
Résumé
Cet essai propose une analyse critique des enjeux et politiques concernant les structures sociales, la culture et l’autonomie des individus dans l’étude des questions raciales et de la pauvreté urbaine dans la sociologie américaine contemporaine.
Mots-clés :
- Structure sociale,
- culture,
- autonomie,
- race,
- classe,
- pauvreté urbaine,
- sociologie,
- William Julius Wilson,
- Sandra Susan Smith,
- Elizabeth Hinton,
- Robert Sampson
Appendices
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