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SOCIOLOGY 154 - SECTION 301 - POVERTY AND SOCIETY FALL SEMESTER 1999

Course:

A focus on a sociological exploration of the relationship between poverty and current social concerns, the changing nature of poverty, changes in social responses to poverty, with a special emphasis on public policy implications. Robert H. Bremner, The Discovery of Poverty in the United States(New Brunswick: Transaction), 1992. Osha Gray Davidson, Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press), 1996. William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor(New York: Knopf), 1996. Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty(New York: Oxford Press), 1994.

Text Books:

Instructor:

R. Dean Wright, Ph.D. 124 Howard Hall

Phone: (515) 271-3618 E-mail: Dean.Wright@drake.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday: 9:00 - 10:45 am Tuesday, Thursday and 1:00 - 1:45, pm, Thursday and Thursday. This course serves as one of the electives within the Department of Sociology. As such, the course serves a more general or liberal audience. The objectives are more broadly defined than are those of required or core courses. The objectives of this course are to

Course Objectives:

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introduce the major sociological themes concerning poverty, ensure that the student is exposed to importance of reliable and valid methodologies used in understanding poverty, provide a setting in which the major theories associated with poverty can be analyzed, provide an arena in which linkages can be made about both theory and research pertaining to poverty, examine the relationship among theory, knowledge of poverty, social response, and public policy relating to poverty, and provide students with alternative models that might be used by students to better understand public concerns and responses to poverty.

Sociology 154 (Poverty and Society) Syllabus

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