Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Madness and non-intelligence is not a sufficient answer to the excess intelligence of today's "Mega-Machine," philosopher Lewis Mumford warned last night.
LA VIDA by Oscar Lewis. 669 pages. Random House. $10.
Suffocating & Ugly. Whatever the Ríoses may suffer from-and they are all desperately poor-it is clearly not repression. Anthropologist-Author Oscar Lewis found them "closer to the expression of an unbridled id than any other people I have studied." As in his earlier experiments with total sociology...
Only a sociologist, perhaps, is equipped to digest the mountains of raw data that Lewis' technique produces, to assay the yards of tape, the stenographic interviews, the conscientious catalogues of someone's wardrobe, someone else's orange-crate kitchen shelf. In a foreword, Lewis makes an effort...
Lewis draws a distinction between poverty and what he calls the "culture of poverty"-a perpetuation, at society's lowest levels, of the patterns of life that form, over generations and sometimes centuries, a kind of prison. It is a prison whose door stands open a crack, says Lewis...