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Cultures of Unemployment
Godfried Engbersen
Kees Schuyt
Jaap Timmer
Frans van Waarden
其他書名
A Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty
出版
Amsterdam University Press
, 2006
主題
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN
9053568468
9789053568460
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Gkhrnv8IvG8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In the 1980s a team of Dutch sociologists conducted a study on the daily life of unemployed in the Netherlands. They were inspired by the classical work Marienthal: the Sociology of an Unemployed Community first published in 1933. The authors conducted three neighborhood studies to analyze the social behavior of the unemployed. Based on the work of Robert K. Merton and Mary Douglas they developed a typology of different cultures of unemployment. This typology is still relevant to analyze contemporary reactions to unemployment in European welfare states. The authors also demonstrated that their cultural analysis is fruitful to understand the heterogeneity of urban marginality in the United States. A foreword by U.S. scholar William Julius Wilson emphasizes the universality of the method and the findings presented here.