No employment opportunity in the restructured economy in ghettos on the one Poverty by increasing the concentration of black population who have little or According to Wacquant, the state in the US tried to deal with
Perspective which focuses on the direct involvement of the state in Presenting it as a technical problem of service provision, Wacquant offers a
Sociological tradition to strip off the political implications of poverty and Standing against the tendency of the American The stigmatization of black ghetto residents. That conceptualization of urban poverty in American sociology mostly serves for Wacquant offered aĬomparative perspective and repudiated the arguments which were based on theĪssumption of the Americanization of European cities. When Loic Wacquant started his research on urban poverty. With American-originated concepts like ghetto and underclass during the periods On the transformation of urban poverty in European cities had been largely filled On extensive neighborhoods of poverty in the so-called inner city. Instruments of American sociology which had an advanced tradition of research Urbanization literature tried to understand the ongoing process by using the Following the de-industrialization process in advancedĬountries, the existence of populations which were largely excluded fromĮmployment opportunities had become more and more apparent by 1980ies.