The Social Construction of Poverty and the Meaning of Deprivation: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mobile Home Park Residents
Poverty is an important socio-economic problem with serious negative consequences for consumers worldwide. Currently, there are approximately 57 million Americans considered as the "marginal poor" and 37 million Americans categorized as the "extreme poor" (Newman and Chen 2007)....
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39173 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-000629/ |