At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1588267016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Jeffrey Michael Clair is associate professor of sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jason Adam Wasserman is assistant professor of sociology at Texas Tech University
An excellent sociological perspective on homelessness Applied Sociologist This book is well-written with an excellent literature review, and compelling, reflective ethnographic work. It provides a very different insight into the experience of being homeless, and demonstrates how many of the policies cannot possibly work to end homelessness. The model of 'shelterization' shows how homeless must buy into a medical pathology framework in order to receive help. Further, the shelters are very unpleasant, so that even though the street is rough, at least it has fewer threats.Its weakness, as a qualitative piece, is that it covers basically one small group of AFrican-Amer. Thomas L. Murray said At Home on the Street, People Poverty, and a Hidden Cutlure:. A masterpiece: Insightful, brilliant and allows the laymen to see the HONEST predicament of America's Homeless population. Thank God for the authors. They took the time to study and then write a book that doesn't preach, it informs, it enlightens. Tom Murray in West Texas.. Nathan Hunt said This is not only the best book on homelessness I have found. This is not only the best book on homelessness I have found, it is a highly creative and reflective piece of postmodern sociology.Clair and Wasserman’s highly original ethnography on the “street homeless”--defined as those who generally shirk shelters and homeless services for de-institutionalized life on the streets--goes beyond explaining homelessness to an examination of the deep ironies in our culture that both produce homelessness and criminalize the very phenomenon for which they are responsible.The authors’ core critique is that mainstream homelessness discussio
The result is an unvarnished look at the culture of long-term homelessness and a fresh approach to reaching this resurgent population. Wasserman and Clair delve into the complex realities of homelessness to paint a gripping picture of individuals - not cases or pathologies - living on the street and of their strategies for daily survival. In their compelling examination of what it means to be truly at home on the street, the authors argue that programs and policies designed to assist homeless people too often serve only to alienate them.. In their compelling examination of what it means to be truly at home on the street, Jason Wasserman and Jeffrey Clair argue that programs and policies addressing homeless people too often serve only to alienate them. By exploring the private spaces that those who are homeless create for themselves, as well as their prevailing social mores, the authors explain how well-intentioned policies and programs often on
--Timothy Pippert, Augsburg College . Wasserman and Clair offer a new way of looking at the diverse people living on the extreme margins of our society. Their rich ethnography confronts popular conceptions of homeless people and situates street homelessness as a choice distinct from living in shelters. A revelation. Sociologists, service providers, and policymakers - not to mention students of homelessness and poverty - need to read this. --Michael Rowe, Yale UniversityThe author's expansive data is firmly grounded in the literature and theory of homelessness, making this an exceptionally strong, interesting, and well-rounded study