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The Challenges of Vulnerability : In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Misztal, Barbara A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Political Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Equality.
Macroeconomics.
Personality.
Political sociology.
Social psychology.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social structure.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 263 pages)
ISBN:9780230316690
DOI:10.1057/9780230316690