All Our Kin

出版者:Basic Books

作者:Carol B. Stack

页数:192

出版时间:1983-8-4

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780061319822

具体描述

All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On the contrary, her study showed that families in The Flats adapted to their poverty conditions by forming large, resilient, lifelong support networks based on friendship and family that were very powerful, highly structured and surprisingly complex. Universally considered the best analysis of family and kinship in a ghetto black community ever published, All Our Kin is also an indictment of a social system that reinforces welfare dependency and chronic unemployment. As today's political debate over welfare reform heats up, its message has become more important than ever.

用户评价

作者的数据、论证过程和结论对我来说都不具很强的说服力。在结论里作者说到，底层黑人社区的这种kin-based network结构是为了生存而牺牲发展（upward mobility和marriage，）当人们想要往kin network外发展时，就需要衡量失去这种稳定性的代价，于是会放弃婚姻和主流价值观。可是，作者没有说服我为什么生存和发展会是对立的，这种kinship也不是黑人文化独有的，为什么偏偏在这里就会有这种对立呢？ 作者想以黑人社区的kin-based network证明其实黑人家庭并不是像学界一贯的观点那样，是broken的，可是，如果这种结构成为黑人组成传统家庭的阻碍，难道不正是一个问题吗？

作者的数据、论证过程和结论对我来说都不具很强的说服力。在结论里作者说到，底层黑人社区的这种kin-based network结构是为了生存而牺牲发展（upward mobility和marriage，）当人们想要往kin network外发展时，就需要衡量失去这种稳定性的代价，于是会放弃婚姻和主流价值观。可是，作者没有说服我为什么生存和发展会是对立的，这种kinship也不是黑人文化独有的，为什么偏偏在这里就会有这种对立呢？ 作者想以黑人社区的kin-based network证明其实黑人家庭并不是像学界一贯的观点那样，是broken的，可是，如果这种结构成为黑人组成传统家庭的阻碍，难道不正是一个问题吗？

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作者的数据、论证过程和结论对我来说都不具很强的说服力。在结论里作者说到，底层黑人社区的这种kin-based network结构是为了生存而牺牲发展（upward mobility和marriage，）当人们想要往kin network外发展时，就需要衡量失去这种稳定性的代价，于是会放弃婚姻和主流价值观。可是，作者没有说服我为什么生存和发展会是对立的，这种kinship也不是黑人文化独有的，为什么偏偏在这里就会有这种对立呢？ 作者想以黑人社区的kin-based network证明其实黑人家庭并不是像学界一贯的观点那样，是broken的，可是，如果这种结构成为黑人组成传统家庭的阻碍，难道不正是一个问题吗？

gift giving creates a relationship, an obligation,an expectation on the person who receives your gift to help you later on in return. 这个观点不能同意更多！所以sharing什么的真的很累（。逆转了Tonnies Gemeinschaft那条chain有点小佩服，有些观点别人写出来你觉得理所当然，但自己写不出的