This introduction to a special collection of articles on the theme of poverty and personhood provides an overview of the collection's response to recent calls for a reconsideration of culture in urban poverty studies. We argue that such a reconsideration must confront two theoretical problems if it is to be successful. First, the analyses must make a sustained effort to define clearly the theoretical model of “culture” used in the analyses and why this theoretical perspective is illuminative without reproducing the problematic uses of culture in past scholarship. Second, this reconsideration must come to terms with the problematic relationship between culture and human subjectivities. The remainder of the article describes how this special collection addresses these two concerns by bringing together recent innovations in person‐centered ethnography that draws considerably from psychodynamic theory, phenomenology, and a theory from cognitive anthropology that replaces bounded cultures with variably distributed, affectively imbued cultural models. Cultural models also include expectations about others’ judgments. This introductory article concludes by highlighting four contributions the accompanying research articles make as a collection to the question of how we might better understand the relation of culture and human subjectivity in the study of urban poverty.

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简介：文化与贫困研究中以人为本的方法

这本关于贫困与人格主题的特别文章集的简介概述了该集对最近呼吁重新考虑城市贫困研究中的文化的回应。我们认为，这样的重新考虑要想成功，就必须面对两个理论问题。首先，分析必须做出持续的努力，以明确定义分析中使用的“文化”的理论模型，以及为什么这种理论观点具有启发性而不重现过去学者对文化的使用。其次，这种重新考虑必须与文化和人类主观性之间的问题联系相适应。本文的其余部分描述了如何通过将以人为中心的人种学的最新创新结合在一起，来解决这两个问题，这些创新主要来自心理动力学理论，现象学，以及来自认知人类学的理论，该理论用可变分布的，情感灌输的文化代替了有限的文化。楷模。文化模型还包括对他人判断的期望。这篇介绍性文章的结尾部分着重介绍了随附的研究文章为我们如何更好地理解城市贫困研究中的文化与人类主体性之间的关系这一问题所做的四篇贡献。情感灌输的文化模式。文化模型还包括对他人判断的期望。这篇介绍性文章的结尾部分着重介绍了随附的研究文章为我们如何更好地理解城市贫困研究中的文化与人类主体性之间的关系这一问题所作的四篇贡献。情感灌输的文化模式。文化模型还包括对他人判断的期望。这篇介绍性文章的结尾部分着重介绍了随附的研究文章为我们如何更好地理解城市贫困研究中的文化与人类主体性之间的关系这一问题所做的四篇贡献。