Coping and Pulling Through: Action Processes in Vulnerable Situations: Action Processed in Vulnerable Situations (Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences.) - Hardcover

9780754634676: Coping and Pulling Through: Action Processes in Vulnerable Situations: Action Processed in Vulnerable Situations (Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754634671 ISBN 13: 9780754634676

Verlag: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 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, examining how to react and the measures to employ in instances of material and symbolic deprivation. It analyzes whether alliances can be formed and their potential benefit, and 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.

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