Doing Poor in AmeriCorps
How National Service Members Deal With Living Below the Poverty Line
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Ceresola (0000-0003-4642-4418, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 116-137 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.11.4.06 |
| OpenAlex | W4206349447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Many young AmeriCorps members enter a post-college lifestyle of food stamps, social services, and living below the poverty line. Using Simmel’s (1965) concept of poverty as a social category one is put into, and West and Fenstermaker’s (1995) concept of class as something one “does,” this paper looks at the AmeriCorps program, to examine how members “do poor.” In 22 in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of AmeriCorps members, I detail a member’s “typical” experience with poverty: first, encountering themselves in poverty, then working to disassociate themselves from having a “poor” identity, and, finally, still maintaining the positive experiences associated with their service
Basic needs · Business · Culture of poverty · Economic growth · Economics · Identity (music · Poverty · Service (business · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Social Work · Marketing
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |