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Rationality in the Slum: An Essay on Interpretive Sociology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Alejandro Portes
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University of Texas, Austin
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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.

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Cities
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1972

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