The Challenges of Vulnerability [electronic resource] : In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life /
Misztal, B.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
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.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Political sociology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Macroeconomics.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Political Sociology.
Social Theory.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology, general.