The challenges of vulnerability : in search of strategies for a less vulnerable social life /

Misztal, Barbara A.

The challenges of vulnerability : in search of strategies for a less vulnerable social life / Barbara A. Misztal. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - viii, 263 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.




Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9780230316690 (ebook)


Social psychology.
People with social disabilities.
People with social disabilities--Services for.
Dependency (Psychology)
Resilience (Personality trait)
Adjustment (Psychology)
Society.
Sociology & anthropology
Social & ethical issues
Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
Social & ethical issues
Sociology
Social theory
Macroeconomics
Social, group or collective psychology
Poverty & unemployment
International relations
Civics & citizenship
Housing & homelessness