Dignity and Daily Practice: The Case of Lone Mothers in Costa RicaLIT Verlag Münster, 2005 - 269 páginas In recent debates over poverty and development, notions of worth, dignity, and human rights have come to the forefront. This publication addresses the link between the theoretical notion of dignity as a social primary good and its material expressions in daily life from comparative social anthropological and historical perspectives. The empirical analysis is based on over one hundred in-depth interviews with lone mothers living in different cultural settings in Costa Rica. In addition, a unique and innovative national social policy measure aimed at promoting dignity and self-worth as a means to exit poverty and secure sustainable development is assessed. |
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Dignity and Daily Practice: The Case of Lone Mothers in Costa Rica Monica Budowski Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 1 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Página 6 - Personal meaninglessness - the feeling that life has nothing worthwhile to offer - becomes a fundamental psychic problem in circumstances of late modernity. We should understand this phenomenon in terms of a repression of moral questions which day-to-day life poses, but which are denied answers. 'Existential isolation...
Página 8 - things that every rational man is presumed to want', including 'rights, liberties and opportunities, income and wealth, and the social bases of self-respect'.
Página 4 - Human rights express the bold idea that all people have claims to social arrangements that protect them from the worst abuses and deprivations - and that secure the freedom for a life of dignity.