Vulnerability across the life course: A theoretical framework and research directions

Article Article professionnel Article Vulnerability across the life course: A theoretical framework and research directions eng 2013 author Spini Dario 24228 author Hanappi Doris 737504 author Bernardi Laura author Oris Michel 0000-0002-6435-9448 133544 author Bickel Jean-François 28623 1-35 10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2013.27 2296-1658 https://www.lives-nccr.ch/fr/publication/vulnerability-across-life-course-theoretical-framework-and-research-directions-n832 In this paper we aim at defining vulnerability in a life course perspective. We follow several steps to legitimate and define the concept of vulnerability as a new travelling concept for life course studies. We begin by presenting the social and historical context in which vulnerability emerges as a useful concept. Then we briefly analyse the current scientific production within the social sciences to determine whether vulnerability can be a heuristic concept for interdisciplinary research against other concepts like poverty, poverty and isolation in sociology, depression in psychology or frailty in gerontology for example. Finally, we review existing life course literature (theories of personality development, sociology of stress, accumulation of (dis)advantage) to propose a dynamic view of vulnerability in the long- and short-term and propose to put vulnerability on the research agenda based on the dynamic model of vulnerability, which is developed using the concepts of life trajectory and transition, resources, life events and stressors, and social context. Dewey 301 Dewey 304.6/305.3/306 122 Département de sociologie T4 195 Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie TH false b0de4c4f-eeb7-4c34-88f9-d3772d5c3d0a NCCR LIVES LIVES working papers 2013 27 6323435a-1bc7-4723-b784-64cd6518b1df Article (Published version) Public a_125_lives_wp_spini_vulnerability.pdf 508619 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de sociologie Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie

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