Jack L. Roach
University of Connecticut
22 Papers
229 Citations
Jack L. Roach is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Social class. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 22 publications.
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Papers
An Evaluation of the Concept “Culture of Poverty”
TL;DR: Roach et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an alternative approach for understanding the behavior of the poor, in which the material conditions of economic deprivation are given greater emphasis, and suggested a more appropriate use of the concept of the culture of poverty.
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Social Class and the Mental Health Movement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on mass media publications and treated the class orientation of the mental health message primarily as an independent rather than a dependent variable, and showed that their middle class cultural orientation influenced their conception of mental health.
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