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The Challenges of Vulnerability : In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life / by B. Misztal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Misztal, Barbara A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personality.
- Difference (Psychology).
- Political sociology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Macroeconomics.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Sociology.
- Personality and Differential Psychology.
- Political Sociology.
- Social Theory.
- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
- Social Structure.
- Local Subjects:
- Personality and Differential Psychology.
- Political Sociology.
- Social Theory.
- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
- Social Structure.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
- Contents:
- Vulnerability to adverse events
- Towards sociology of vulnerability
- The first form of vulnerability
- The second form of vulnerability
- The third form of vulnerability
- The nature of remedies
- Acts of responsibility
- Objectives of promising
- Functions of forgiveness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613317834
- 9781283317832
- 1283317834
- 9780230316690
- 0230316697
- OCLC:
- 759166271
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