Coping and pulling through : action processes in vulnerable situations

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Title:

Coping and pulling through : action processes in vulnerable situations

Author:

Soulet, Marc-Henry.

ISBN:

9780754634676

Publication Information:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.

Physical Description:

169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Contemporary trends in European social sciences

ICCR contemporary trends in European social sciences

Contemporary trends in European social sciences.

Series Title:

Contemporary trends in European social sciences

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction / Vivianne Chatel and Marc-Henry Soulet -- 1. Acting in a situation of social vulnerability : constructing the problem / Vivianne Chatel -- 2. Capital thinking and social vulnerability : the effects of flexible assignation / Daniel Mercure -- 3. Individuals without supports / Robert Castel -- 4. Is the juridical establishment of the principle of the respect of human dignity effective? / Jacques Fierens -- 5. Reconstructive ethics, political justice and social vulnerability / Jean-Marc Ferry -- 6. Exclusion and assertion of citizenship / Giovanna Procacci -- 7. Occupational precariousness and political mobilisation / Serge Paugam -- 8. Continuity of identity and survival / Daniele Laberge and Shirley Roy -- 9. Social action and domination / Franz Schultheis -- 10. Facing social vulnerability and coming through : towards a theory of weak acting / Marc-Henry Soulet.

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Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025121.html

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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, examining how to react and the measures to employ in instances of material and symbolic deprivation. discusses which supports are available despite structural inequality and no opportunity for reciprocation. Drawing together illustrative case studies from across Europe, the contributors consider in depth how a community or individual can take support from a spoiled identity and transform both it and the physical situation. This illuminating volume also includes discussions of living without support, security of living conditions and dignity, claims for citizenship, collective action, continuity and survival. It proposes an innovative and groundbreaking theory for 'weak' action.