The challenges of vulnerability
Subtitle: in search of strategies for a less vulnerable social life
By: Barbara Misztal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hounmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780230222748
Subjects: Equality; Sociology; Social problems; Social policy; Social isolation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vulnerability to adverse events; title: Towards sociology of vulnerability; title: The first form of vulnerability; title: The second form of vulnerability; title: The third form of vulnerability; title: The nature of remedies; title: Acts of responsibility; title: Objectives of promising; title: Functions of forgiveness.