Patterns of economic behavior among the American poor:
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PATTERNS OF
ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AMONG THE AMERICAN POOR
EFRAIM GUTKIND
ST. MARTIN S PRESS NEW YORK
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XI
INTRODUCTION: THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE PROBLEM 1
PARTI CONCEPTUALIZATION AND METHODOLOGY 5
1 SYSTEMS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 7
1.1 INTRODUCTION 7
1.2 THREE APPROACHES TO DESCRIBE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 8 1.2.1 THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH 8
1.2.2 THE SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH 9
1.2.3 THE ECONOMIC APPROACH 11
1.2.4 EVALUATION AND CONCLUSIONS 11
1.3 INDIVIDUAL SOCIETY COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME (ISCS) 14
2 THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF POVERTY 24 2.1 INTRODUCTION 24
2.2 PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO POVERTY 24
2.2.1 THE ABSOLUTE POVERTY APPROACH 24
2.2.2 THE RELATIVE DEPRIVATION APPROACH 25
2.2.3 EVALUATION OF PREVIOUS APPROACHES 27
2.3 RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF POVERTY 28
3 METHODOLOGY 40
3.1 THE USE OF A QUESTIONNAIRE - INTERVIEWING METHOD 40 3.2 THE
STRUCTURE OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE (APPENDIX 1) 41 3.3 THE SAMPLE 45
3.4 THE ACTUAL SURVEY 46
4 FROM CONCEPTUALIZATION TO QUANTIFICATION 48
4.1 THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY SPACE 48
VII
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VIII
CONTENTS
4.2 THE CHOICE OF VARIABLES 49
4.3 THE SCORING SCHEME 54
4.4 THE VARIABLES AND THEIR MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT 54 4.4.1 DEMOGRAPHIC
VARIABLES 54
4.4.2 ECONOMIC VARIABLES 62
4.4.3 EMPLOYMENT VARIABLES 71
4.4.4 QUALITY OF LIFE VARIABLES 77
4.4.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES 97
PART II RESULTS AND ANALYSIS 115
5 THE SAMPLE PROFILE 117
5.1 INTRODUCTION 117
5.2 FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS 117
5.2.1 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE 117
5.2.2 ECONOMIC PROFILE 118
5.2.3 EMPLOYMENT PROFILE 120
5.2.4 QUALITY OF LIFE CHARACTERISTICS 122
5.2.5 SUBJECTIVE VARIABLES 130
5.3 CORRELATIONS 137
6 POVERTY PROFILES 142
6.1 INTRODUCTION 142
6.2 THE STATISTICAL MODEL 143
6.2.1 THE TECHNIQUE 143
6.2.2 ESTIMATION OF THE FACTOR PATTERN 145
6.2.3 ROTATION TO A FINAL SOLUTION 146
6.2.4 THE CHOICE OF THE NUMBER OF FACTORS 147
6.3 DESCRIPTION OF THE FACTORS 147
6.3.1 FACTOR, 1 - THE POVERTY PROFILE 147
6.3.2 FACTOR 2 - THE YOUNG DOER 150
6.3.3 FACTOR 3 - THE FEMALE LOSER 152
6.3.4 FACTOR 4 - THE CHICANO-FEMALE DOER 153
6.3.5 FACTOR 5 - THE COMMUNITY POOR 155
6.3.6 FACTOR 6 - THE WORKING POOR 156
6.3.7 FACTOR 7 - THE POOR HOUSEWIFE 158
6.3.8 FACTOR 8 - THE YOUNG CHICANOS 159
6.4 CONCLUSIONS 160
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CONTENTS
IX
7 THE DYNAMICS OF POVERTY 165
7.1 INTRODUCTION 165
7.2 THE TECHNIQUE 167
7.3 THE CLASSIFICATION FUNCTION 169
7.4 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF ACCOMMODATION 172
8 CLASSIFICATION OF THE VARIABLES 178
8.1 INTRODUCTION 178
8.2 THE REDUCTION OF PROPERTY SPACE 179
8.3 THE STATISTICAL METHOD 180
8.4 PROFILES BY CATEGORY 181
8.4.1 ECONOMIC PROFILES 181
8.4.2 EMPLOYMENT PROFILES 182
8.4.3 QUALITY OF LIFE PROFILES 183
8.4.4 PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES 184
8.5 THE LIST OF THE NEW DIMENSIONS 186
9 THE ROLE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE 190
9.1 INTRODUCTION 190
9.2 THE EVOLUTION OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE IN POVERTY 193
9.2.1 AGE 193
9.2.2 SEX 197
9.2.3 ETHNIC GROUP 200
9.2.4 RELIGION 205
9.2.5 FAMILY STRUCTURE 205
9.2.6 PARENTS SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND 207
9.2.7 LEVEL OF EDUCATION ^ 208
9.3 CONCLUSIONS 210^
10 CONCLUSIONS: THE CONTOUR OF AMERICAN POVERTY 213
10.1 MAJOR FINDINGS 213
10.2 IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS 215
10.2.1 MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY 215
10.2.2 POLICY 216
10.2.3 FURTHER RESEARCH 219
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CONTENTS
APPENDICES 1. THE QUESTIONNAIRE 223
2. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION - SUMMARY TABLES 256
3. THE DYNAMICS OF POVERTY - STATISTICAL RESULTS 285
4. THE ROLE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES STATISTICAL RESULTS 290
NOTES AND REFERENCES 317
BIBLIOGRAPHY 324
INDEX 343
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