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Peer reviewedHunt, Matthew O. – Social Forces, 1996
Telephone interviews of 2,854 southern Californians examined beliefs about causes of poverty: individual characteristics, labor market conditions, failure of schools, discrimination, or luck. Contrary to previous findings, structuralist explanations of poverty were rated higher overall than individualistic explanations, and blacks and Latinos…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Individualism
