Jack L Roach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack L Roach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack L |
| FAMILY NAME | Roach |
| SIGNATURE | ROACH J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in a metropolitan aggregate, 1989–1991
The Economic Crisis: Consequences for Social Problems, Policy and Action
Professional Imperialism: Social Work in the Third World
Income Maintenance Experiments, Politics, and the Perpetuation of Poverty
The background, general design and basic findings of a series of large-scale, government-sponsored, income maintenance experiments are described. Attention is given to the use of findings in connection with congressional debate over welfare reform. The findings have apparently fed political and ideological resistance to proposals for a national guaranteed income program for the poor. While we see the findings as bearing on the outcome of such a p…
Poverty and Social Change
Response to Piven and Cloward
Two features of Piven and Cloward's scatter-gun reply to our paper, Turmoil in Command of Politics, stand out: their failure to respond adequately to our major conclusion and their heavy use of virulent red-baiting and ad hominem arguments which obscures that failure. We concluded on the basis of an examination of several of their works (not just Poor People's Movements, as their reply suggests) that, There is such a bad fit among the four moveme…
Turmoil in Command of Politics: Organizing the Poor
How might poor people today best improve their situation in life? What is the most effective path open to them? An answer that has received much attention in recent years is Piven and Cloward's proposal that poor people mobilize independently and engage in disruptive tactics. Their proposal is grounded in an historical analysis of the successes and failures of past movements of the poor. The core of our paper is a critique of their historical app…
Toward a More Coherent Structuralism
Disunity and Unity of the Working Class: Reply to Piven and Cloward
their analysis of poor people's movements. They maintain that the most effective strategy available to the poor today for improving their condition1 is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. We argue that (1) independent activities of poor people will fail to im-prove their status significantly and (2) substantial improvement in their status is most likely to be achieved as a result of certain kinds of activity within organiz…
Homo americanus
Mobilizing the Poor: Road to a Dead End
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
The Sociology of Social Problems
Social Problems
Some Comments on Gans's "Positive Functions of Poverty" and on "The Famine in American Mass Communications Research
Radical Sociology
The Unexamined Field is Not Worth Working
Journal Article The Unexamined Field is Not Worth Working Get access Robert E. Stauffer Robert E. Stauffer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 51, Issue 1, September 1972, Pages 103–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/51.1.103 Published: 01 September 1972
Social Stratification in the United States
The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure
The Effects of Race and Socio-Economic Status on Family Planning
This paper examines the relative strength of race and socioeconomic status as predictors of family planning behavior. Information about the contraceptive behavior of 1000 clients of a planned parenthood agency was used to determine if differences between races basically reflect socio-economic differences as is usually assumed. It was found that race rather than socioeconomic status accounted for most of the variance. The implications of this find…
The Economics of Delinquency
"An Evaluation of the Concept "Culture of Poverty
The concept of a "culture of poverty" figures prominently in analyses of contemporary poverty and in explanations of the behavior of the poor. An examination of this concept indicates logical and empirical deficiencies in its use. Many of these deficiencies stem from basic problems in the use of the subculture framework, of which the concept of a culture of poverty is an instance. Some suggestions for a more appropriate use of the concept are off…
New Careers for the Poor
The Lower Class, Status Frustration and Social Disorganization
Journal Article The Lower Class, Status Frustration and Social Disorganization Get access Jack L. Roach, Jack L. Roach State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Orville R. Gursslin Orville R. Gursslin State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 43, Issue 4, May 1965, Pages 501–510, https…
Sociological Analysis and Poverty
Problems of Tomorrow: Some Issues in Training the Unemployed
Journal Article Some Issues in Training the Unemployed Get access Orville R. Gursslin, Orville R. Gursslin State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jack L. Roach Jack L. Roach State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 1, Summer 1964, Pages 86–98, https://doi.…
Mobilizing the Poor: Road to a Dead End
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
Social Class and the Mental Health Movement
Social Class and the Mental Health Movement Get access Orville R. Gursslin, Orville R. Gursslin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Raymond G. Hunt, Raymond G. Hunt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jack L. Roach Jack L. Roach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 3, Winter 1959, Page…
New Careers for the Poor
The Sociology of Social Problems
"An Evaluation of the Concept "Culture of Poverty
The concept of a "culture of poverty" figures prominently in analyses of contemporary poverty and in explanations of the behavior of the poor. An examination of this concept indicates logical and empirical deficiencies in its use. Many of these deficiencies stem from basic problems in the use of the subculture framework, of which the concept of a culture of poverty is an instance. Some suggestions for a more appropriate use of the concept are off…
Problems of Tomorrow: Some Issues in Training the Unemployed
Journal Article Some Issues in Training the Unemployed Get access Orville R. Gursslin, Orville R. Gursslin State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jack L. Roach Jack L. Roach State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 1, Summer 1964, Pages 86–98, https://doi.…
The relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in a metropolitan aggregate, 1989–1991
Social Stratification in the United States
Social Class, Mental Hygiene, and Psychiatric Practice
Radical Sociology
Social Status and Psychiatric Service in a Child Guidance Clinic
Social Status and Psychiatric Service in a Child Guidance Clinic
Social Class, Mental Hygiene, and Psychiatric Practice
Social Class and the Mental Health Movement
Social Class and the Mental Health Movement Get access Orville R. Gursslin, Orville R. Gursslin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Raymond G. Hunt, Raymond G. Hunt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jack L. Roach Jack L. Roach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 3, Winter 1959, Page…
Problems of Tomorrow: Some Issues in Training the Unemployed
Journal Article Some Issues in Training the Unemployed Get access Orville R. Gursslin, Orville R. Gursslin State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jack L. Roach Jack L. Roach State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 1, Summer 1964, Pages 86–98, https://doi.…
The Lower Class, Status Frustration and Social Disorganization
Journal Article The Lower Class, Status Frustration and Social Disorganization Get access Jack L. Roach, Jack L. Roach State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Orville R. Gursslin Orville R. Gursslin State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 43, Issue 4, May 1965, Pages 501–510, https…
Sociological Analysis and Poverty
New Careers for the Poor
The Effects of Race and Socio-Economic Status on Family Planning
This paper examines the relative strength of race and socioeconomic status as predictors of family planning behavior. Information about the contraceptive behavior of 1000 clients of a planned parenthood agency was used to determine if differences between races basically reflect socio-economic differences as is usually assumed. It was found that race rather than socioeconomic status accounted for most of the variance. The implications of this find…
The Economics of Delinquency
"An Evaluation of the Concept "Culture of Poverty
The concept of a "culture of poverty" figures prominently in analyses of contemporary poverty and in explanations of the behavior of the poor. An examination of this concept indicates logical and empirical deficiencies in its use. Many of these deficiencies stem from basic problems in the use of the subculture framework, of which the concept of a culture of poverty is an instance. Some suggestions for a more appropriate use of the concept are off…
Social Stratification in the United States
The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure
Radical Sociology
The Unexamined Field is Not Worth Working
Journal Article The Unexamined Field is Not Worth Working Get access Robert E. Stauffer Robert E. Stauffer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 51, Issue 1, September 1972, Pages 103–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/51.1.103 Published: 01 September 1972
Some Comments on Gans's "Positive Functions of Poverty" and on "The Famine in American Mass Communications Research
The Sociology of Social Problems
Social Problems
Homo americanus
Mobilizing the Poor: Road to a Dead End
This paper is addressed to the recommendation that the most effective strategy available to the poor for improving their condition is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. The most prominent exponents of this position are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. We examine their analysis of “poor people's movements” with particular emphasis on their account of the National Welfare Rights Organization and its failure. We conclu…
Toward a More Coherent Structuralism
Disunity and Unity of the Working Class: Reply to Piven and Cloward
their analysis of poor people's movements. They maintain that the most effective strategy available to the poor today for improving their condition1 is independent mobilization and the use of disruptive tactics. We argue that (1) independent activities of poor people will fail to im-prove their status significantly and (2) substantial improvement in their status is most likely to be achieved as a result of certain kinds of activity within organiz…
Poverty and Social Change
Response to Piven and Cloward
Two features of Piven and Cloward's scatter-gun reply to our paper, Turmoil in Command of Politics, stand out: their failure to respond adequately to our major conclusion and their heavy use of virulent red-baiting and ad hominem arguments which obscures that failure. We concluded on the basis of an examination of several of their works (not just Poor People's Movements, as their reply suggests) that, There is such a bad fit among the four moveme…
Turmoil in Command of Politics: Organizing the Poor
How might poor people today best improve their situation in life? What is the most effective path open to them? An answer that has received much attention in recent years is Piven and Cloward's proposal that poor people mobilize independently and engage in disruptive tactics. Their proposal is grounded in an historical analysis of the successes and failures of past movements of the poor. The core of our paper is a critique of their historical app…
Income Maintenance Experiments, Politics, and the Perpetuation of Poverty
The background, general design and basic findings of a series of large-scale, government-sponsored, income maintenance experiments are described. Attention is given to the use of findings in connection with congressional debate over welfare reform. The findings have apparently fed political and ideological resistance to proposals for a national guaranteed income program for the poor. While we see the findings as bearing on the outcome of such a p…
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