عنوان

Understanding context, agency and process in the health of homeless young women in Glasgow :

شماره

TLets523391

عنوان اصلي

Understanding context, agency and process in the health of homeless young women in Glasgow :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Stephen, Dawn Eunice

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a qualitative study

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Glasgow

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1998

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Glasgow

امتياز متن

1998

متن يادداشت

The health experiences, and the lived experiences in general, of homeless young women have largely been overlooked. In seeking to redress this situation, the research findings presented in this thesis support those from other homelessness studies; the sample's health was poor. However, drawing upon a wider range of research traditions than is normally the case, conceiving health in terms of physical, mental and social well-being, and employing qualitative methods to facilitate verstehen of the epiphanies and processes involved in the outcome of 'homelessness', the meanings these lived experiences had engendered, and the lifeworld of 'homeless' young women, this study problematises the rather biomedical orientation of most homelessness and ill-health studies. The fundamental argument presented is that homelessness and poor health outcomes are products of the same iniquitous structures that affect a much greater population, yet the medicalisation of homelessness has served to obscure this and reinforce difference. Accordingly, the concepts of social exclusion, youth transitions and identity in late modernity provide a normative 'way of seeing' the experience of homelessness and its relationship with health. By simply conceiving the subjects of research as cognisant and purposive agents whose lived experiences are rooted in the structures and processes of exclusion inherent in late modernity, yet mediated by the affective body, the importance of acknowledging relativity, as a social concept in homelessness research is demonstrated. This is accomplished by exploring the sample's lived experiences as the contexts within which their health meanings and actions are informed and effected. It is shown that 'homelessness', portrayed by the sample as a stage of transition between the structured limitations of the past and their aspirations for the future, does not only produce negative health outcomes.

موضوع مستند نشده

HM Sociology

موضوع مستند نشده

RA Public aspects of medicine

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stephen, Dawn Eunice

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Glasgow

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y