Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty

Author:  Lewis, Oscar.
Introduction: Mead, Margaret.
Foreword: La Frange, Oliver. 

• Paperback: 319 pages
• Publisher: Mentor Book. (1959)
• Language English
• Price: $10

This review is from: Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty (Paperback)

I just read this book, as I have read his other works. Oscar Lewis gives an extensive complete examination into the lives of extreme poverty. He gives exacting detail of the homes, lifestyles, and characteristics of the poor in Mexico. The last chapter delves with the poor who have accomplished "some wealth" and their upbringing still manages to evolve the same as if they were still poor. Wonderful thorough book!