1st Edition
Coping and Pulling Through Action Processes in Vulnerable Situations
By Vivianne Châtel
Copyright 2004
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2004. Exclusion is a popular area of sociological research, with much analysis pointing towards survival practices and inclusion mechanisms as ways to cope with and confront exclusion. However, the question of what it means to act and how it is possible to do so from a vulnerable situation has yet to be properly addressed. This resourceful volume takes on this challenge,... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Vivianne Châtel and Marc-Henry Soulet; Acting in a situation of social vulnerability: constructing the problem, Vivianne Châtel; Capital thinking and social vulnerability: the effects of flexible assignation, Daniel Mercure; Individuals without supports, Robert Castel; Is the juridical establishment of the principle of the respect of human dignity effective?, Jacques Fierens; Reconstructive ethics, political justice and social vulnerability, Jean-Marc Ferry; Exclusion and assertion of citizenship, Giovanna Procacci; Occupational precariousness and political mobilisation, Serge Paugam; Continuity of identity and survival, Dani Laberge and Shirley Roy; Social action and domination, Franz Schultheis; Facing social vulnerability and coming through: towards a theory of weak acting, Marc-Henry Soulet; Index.
Biography
Vivianne Châtel, Senior Researcher in Sociology, University Paris V-La Sorbonne, (France) and University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Marc-Henry Soulet, Professor of Sociology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
