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Appalachian Values/American Values: Part III

Appalachian Values/American Values: Part III Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1978, pp. 11-19 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1978.0034 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441477/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:12 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Values/American Values PART III by Jim Wayne Miller IV. APPALACHIAN VALUES AND SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS ". . .we come to a point where we find it hard to distinguish between cause and effect. —Rupert B. Vance The Southern Appalachian region: A Survey The American tendency to locate controls within the individual or group, rather than in external conditions and circumstances has had important conse'quences for the way we view minority groups. The result has often been that, generous, com- passionate, and impatient in our faith in the perfectability of man, we locate the reasons for failure in the objects of our concern and compassion, even as we make a great show of kindness. William Ryan describes the process in a book called Blaming the Victim: First, identify a social problem. Second, study those affected by the pro- blem and discover in what ways they are different from the rest of us as a consequence of deprivation and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Appalachian Values/American Values: Part III

Miller, Jim Wayne.
Appalachian Review , Volume 6 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1978, pp. 11-19 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1978.0034 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441477/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:12 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Values/American Values PART III by Jim Wayne Miller IV. APPALACHIAN VALUES AND SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS ". . .we come to a point where we find it hard to distinguish between cause and effect. —Rupert B. Vance The Southern Appalachian region: A Survey The American tendency to locate controls within the individual or group, rather than in external conditions and circumstances has had important conse'quences for the way we view minority groups. The result has often been that, generous, com- passionate, and impatient in our faith in the perfectability of man, we locate the reasons for failure in the objects of our concern and compassion, even as we make a great show of kindness. William Ryan describes the process in a book called Blaming the Victim: First, identify a social problem. Second, study those affected by the pro- blem and discover in what ways they are different from the rest of us as a consequence of deprivation and

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