From Social Vulnerability to Risk of Impoverishment of Middle Sectors: A Conceptual and Methodological Turn

A risk of impoverishment currently looms over an important number of Latin American middle-income households. This situation demands a critical revision of the main conceptual & methodological proposals regarding social vulnerability developed in the region's context in the last decade. It...

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Published in:Estudios sociológicos (Mexico City, Mexico) Mexico), 2006-01, Vol.24 (70), p.99-138
Main Authors: Mora Salas, Minor, Perez Sainz, Juan Pablo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Costa Rica
Middle Class
Poverty
Risk
Vulnerability
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Summary:A risk of impoverishment currently looms over an important number of Latin American middle-income households. This situation demands a critical revision of the main conceptual & methodological proposals regarding social vulnerability developed in the region's context in the last decade. It is necessary to develop a conceptual & methodological approach consistent with the probabilistic & dispositional nature of the risk perspective. The authors, elaborating on an argument from a previous paper, advance a new methodological strategy with such attributes & illustrate its application in a study of the risk of impoverishment in Costa Rica carried out in 2003. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0185-4186