There has been a lack of debate between and frameworks for theories of the causes of
poverty. This article proposes that most theories of poverty can be productively categorized …

This review explains how and why the United States has systemically high poverty.
Descriptive evidence shows that US poverty is (i) a huge share of the population,(ii) a …

Family structure remains a dominant explanation for understanding racial inequality in
poverty. Yet, empirical studies show family structure does not fully account for this …

Structural racism is central for understanding Black families, but structural racism has not
been central to quantitative research on Black families. Instead, research on Black families …

In 2018, a staggering 38 million Americans, about one in every nine, faced income poverty.
Seventeen million of them experienced deep or extreme poverty, defined as a household …

In recent decades, sociologists have generally avoided explicitly discussing the role of
culture in processes of social inequality. We argue that the prevailing disciplinary theory of …

We review research on social stratification and labor market institutions with a focus on
typical East Asian practices versus common American perspectives about income …

This article aims to contribute to theorizing and research about the processes and
relationships connecting families and poverty. The aim is to undertake a thought exercise to …

In this article, we compare two international participatory studies on poverty–one conducted
in 1999 and published in 2000 as “Voices of the Poor: Crying out for Change” by the World …

While cultural sociology has recently made a comeback in research on social inequality both
in the context of poverty studies and studies of immigrant integration, it has rarely …