Rationality in the Slum: An Essay on Interpretive Sociology
- 3 June 1972
- journal article
- cities
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 14 (3) , 268-286
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s001041750000668x
Abstract
The peripheral slum population in urban Latin America is still characterized, despite much research to the contrary, as a focus of discontent and political disruptiveness. The resilience of this approach lies in its being imbedded in a more general and unquestionably accepted definition of the slum population as culturally primitive and, hence, most frequently irrational.Keywords
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