Urban Poverty: The Underclass

In dealing with urban poverty, William Julius Wilson called for a revival of the liberal view in low-level discussions in the slums. Prior to the controversial Moynihan's report in 1965, the liberalists dominated the argument with persuasive and clever debate, arguing that "the heart of the deterioration of the black society is the deterioration of the black family" did. They avoid research that may lead to the stigmaization of certain ethnic minorities.

Lower classes usually occupy certain areas of the city. Therefore, the lower class concept is very popular in urban sociology, especially in the description of urban poverty. In most cases the terms "lower class" and "lower class" are used interchangeably. Research on rights after civil rights The African-American community usually includes discussion of lower classes. Especially in the United States, many of the lower class works are city centered. William Julius Wilson 's book' The Meaning of Race Decline '(1978) and' Real Weakness' (1987) are popular words of the lower class of black cities. Wilson defines the lower class as "the lowest population of the social class suffering from low education and low wage professions".

Wilson's innovative work was to create the lower class of the city from the 1970s to the 1980s. He pointed out that the major social and economic changes in the United States concentrated collectively social and economic disadvantages of various forms into social isolation, in particular the poor, black and urban communities did.

This attention poverty war failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily increasing. And the increasingly destructive lower class has cruelly suppressed the urban community. The United States seems to have little patience to the poor: even traditionally homeless cities have arrested, harassed and expelled their street people. In this timely work, William Kelso analyzes how persistence of poverty over the past 30 years brought about the reversal of liberalism and conservatism. The liberal factions of the 1960s hoped to eradicate the root cause of poverty, but today it is increasingly reluctant to deal with that impact. The original Liberalist's goal of supporting the poor by promoting equal opportunities opens the way for new challenges on rights and equality outcomes. In contrast, conservatives who proposed efforts to eradicate poverty are now wasted and trying to get rid of the real cause of poverty.