Unit:
Speciality Social Theory and Social ResearchLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Ανδρέας Αλέξανδρος Κύρτσης , Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ. Γεράσιμος Κουζέλης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Ιωάννης Τσίρμπας, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Original Title:
Δυνατότητες αντίστασης ανέργων σε συνθήκες δομικής βίας: Η περίπτωση των μεσήλικων οικογενειαρχών ανέργων από τον ιδιωτικό τομέα.
Translated title:
Δυνατότητες αντίστασης ανέργων σε συνθήκες δομικής βίας: Η περίπτωση των μεσήλικων οικογενειαρχών ανέργων από τον ιδιωτικό τομέα.
Summary:
Violence cannot be considered as a closed concept what means that we cannot define violence in an one-dimensional way. Through the analysis of our quantitative research, in which we examine the living experience of unemployment within the context of the dissertation, we try to define unemployment as structural violence, as a form of violence that manifests from the system and at the same time is being seen as a system’s characteristic. We are going to analyze the agency of the unemployed to resist the conditions that occur from the condition of structural violence. According to the findings of our research the structural violence of the unemployment is the cause of the difference between the real and the potential, regarding the abilities that someone, in this case the unemployed, may could have and to what actually really happens since unemployment causes a total change in the living of the unemployed. The procedure through which the subject may try to resist can be seen as case of cognitive dissonance. The ability to resist pertains to semantic procedures and to change of the way of thinking about self and the external reality. The unemployed can reduce the negative effects that unemployment causes through eliminating their desires, by taking action or being integrated in a collectivity.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
violence, structural violence, unemployment, resistance, cognitive dissonance
Number of references:
100
