Voice and advocacy in the urban ghetto

Title: Voice and advocacy in the urban ghetto
Identifier: d_2009_2013:58353963b021:10217
identifier: 10301
Creator: Phelps, Jean,
Contributor: William Kornblum
Date: 2009
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology
Abstract: This study was conducted to ascertain whether poor and powerless urban dwellers could develop the skills to speak out on their own behalf when dealing with institutions of power. The research explored the conditions and processes, which facilitate or hamper the development of self-advocacy skills. The subjects of this study were observed, over an extended period of time, struggling under the domination of institutions that use methods of control to keep the poor in inferior positions in society.;This study has showed that poor individuals can develop the voice to speak out on their own behalf, effecting positive outcomes in situations that heretofore were beyond their power and scope to change. It also indicates that the urban poor may not necessarily step out on their own against a system that has oppressed and exploited them. They may require encouragement from people who are in positions of influence.;The study concludes that newly learned and acquired self advocacy skills can lead to self-empowerment, if performed regularly.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Sociology