Dwight Billings
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dwight Billings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dwight |
| FAMILY NAME | Billings |
| SIGNATURE | BILLINGS D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social origins of Appalachian poverty: Markets, cultural strategies, and the state in an Appalachian Kentucky community, 1804–1940
Appalachian poverty has typically been interpreted as the result of either persistent economic isolation or, conversely, absentee corporate capitalist exploitation. Instead, by stressing the interplay of slave-based manufacturing and commerce, and the self-exploitation and exploitation of family labor in subsistence farming, we locate the social origins of Appalachian poverty in the indigenous development of the mountain economy prior to the adve…
Appalachian Culture and Resistance
David Cattell-Gordon's (1990) recent interpretation of Appalachian culture as culturally transmitted post-traumatic stress syndrome dramatizes the human costs associated with deindustrialization and unemployment. But it overlooks oppositional movements and actions in Appalachia and, consequently, the discussion minimizes the possibilities for agency and empowerment. Such an interpretation relies upon a one-sided reading of Appalachian history and…
"Comment on "The Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
Two Views of an Award Winning Book
Elites and Change in the Kentucky Mountains. H. Dudley Plunkett , Mary Jean Bowman
Culture and Poverty in Appalachia: A Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Analysis
The prevalent explanation for persistence of in Appalachia stresses region's traditional culture which ill equips its population for participation in modern world. This research casts doubt on cultural explanation. A scale of orientation was produced from secondary analysis of data gathered from several thousand respondents in North Carolina. Attitudinal differences bet ,een respondents from Appalachian subregion of that state and from other regi…
Culture and Poverty in Appalachia: A Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Analysis
The prevalent explanation for persistence of in Appalachia stresses region's traditional culture which ill equips its population for participation in modern world. This research casts doubt on cultural explanation. A scale of orientation was produced from secondary analysis of data gathered from several thousand respondents in North Carolina. Attitudinal differences bet ,een respondents from Appalachian subregion of that state and from other regi…
Social origins of Appalachian poverty: Markets, cultural strategies, and the state in an Appalachian Kentucky community, 1804–1940
Appalachian poverty has typically been interpreted as the result of either persistent economic isolation or, conversely, absentee corporate capitalist exploitation. Instead, by stressing the interplay of slave-based manufacturing and commerce, and the self-exploitation and exploitation of family labor in subsistence farming, we locate the social origins of Appalachian poverty in the indigenous development of the mountain economy prior to the adve…
Elites and Change in the Kentucky Mountains. H. Dudley Plunkett , Mary Jean Bowman
Culture and Poverty in Appalachia: A Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Analysis
The prevalent explanation for persistence of in Appalachia stresses region's traditional culture which ill equips its population for participation in modern world. This research casts doubt on cultural explanation. A scale of orientation was produced from secondary analysis of data gathered from several thousand respondents in North Carolina. Attitudinal differences bet ,een respondents from Appalachian subregion of that state and from other regi…
Two Views of an Award Winning Book
"Comment on "The Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
Appalachian Culture and Resistance
David Cattell-Gordon's (1990) recent interpretation of Appalachian culture as culturally transmitted post-traumatic stress syndrome dramatizes the human costs associated with deindustrialization and unemployment. But it overlooks oppositional movements and actions in Appalachia and, consequently, the discussion minimizes the possibilities for agency and empowerment. Such an interpretation relies upon a one-sided reading of Appalachian history and…
Social origins of Appalachian poverty: Markets, cultural strategies, and the state in an Appalachian Kentucky community, 1804–1940
Appalachian poverty has typically been interpreted as the result of either persistent economic isolation or, conversely, absentee corporate capitalist exploitation. Instead, by stressing the interplay of slave-based manufacturing and commerce, and the self-exploitation and exploitation of family labor in subsistence farming, we locate the social origins of Appalachian poverty in the indigenous development of the mountain economy prior to the adve…
Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Appalachia (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Poverty (2 works)