On Vulnerability - A Critical Introduction

List of contents

Introduction
1. Vulnerability as deviance and stigma
2. When ‘normal’ people become vulnerable
3. The intersectionality of vulnerability
4. Understanding vulnerability through the lens of risk
5. Trust, hope, magic and the paradox of vulnerability
6. The vulnerable body
7. Vulnerability to suffering
8. Ethical concerns in researching vulnerability, as inseparable from methodological and analytical considerations
Conclusions: Three types of knowledge around vulnerability

About the author

Patrick Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He studies how individuals, groups and organisations manage their vulnerability amid uncertainty, for example, through risk, trust, hope, faith and everyday rituals, and the difficulties they encounter in doing so.

Summary

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes which make us vulnerable – interactions, identity and group dynamics.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brown, Patrick (University of Amsterdam Brown, Patrick (University of Toronto Brown, Brown Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367366605
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36660-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social welfare & social services, Social and ethical issues, Development Studies, Medical Sociology, Research methods: general