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The production of poverty as an object of governance

The production of poverty as an object of governance

Claudio Ramos Zincke

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Poverty and the poor could have been very different from what measurement instruments have shown. This book addresses an underground facet of social policies concerning poverty: the instruments and procedures for measuring it and classifying people as poor in Chile. Using interviews, ethnographic observation, data, and secondary sources, as well as abundant press material, the research reveals the multiple contingencies of poverty constructed by the State through the Casen survey and the social stratification card, over the last 35 years.

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The production of poverty as an object of governance

Autor Claudio Ramos Zincke
Portada Ver portada
Year 08-2016
Nº de páginas 402
ISBN 978-956-357-075-5
ISBN digital 978-956-357-076-2

Claudio Ramos Zincke

Chile. He holds a Ph.D. and Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and master's and bachelor's degrees in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica. He works as a full professor in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado. This work is a continuation of three other books by him published in this collection: The Assembly of Social Science and Society. Scientific Knowledge, Governance of Conduct, and the Production of the Social (2012), The production of poverty as an object of governance (2016) y Sociological Narratives and Society (2019). In all of them, the entanglement or “assembly” between science and society is explored. In the first, this is done in a more theoretical and abstract way, while in the other two, it is done empirically, with reference to particular aspects of Chilean social reality.

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