CEIL   02670
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIONES LABORALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
“Identity, poverty situations and the Epistemology of the Known Subject”
Autor/es:
IRENE VASILACHIS DE GIALDINO
Revista:
SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Editorial:
Sage Publications
Referencias:
Lugar: London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhy; Año: 2006 vol. 40 p. 473 - 491
ISSN:
0038-0385
Resumen:
The paper aims at proposing a relational definition of poor people and poverty situations grounded in the Epistemology of the Known Subject and drawn from qualitative research data. I will first examine the basic assumptions of such epistemology, which has arisen from the limitations of prior ways of knowing, i.e. of what I call the epistemological paradigms of the Epistemology of the Knowing Subject. Then I will discuss the features of an empirical study on extreme poverty in Buenos Aires city, as well as the data analysis and concept creation processes involved. This will enable me to consider the characteristics of the relational definition of poor people and poverty situations. Finally, I will explore the societal model and the type of social process underlying the usual notions of poverty, and the influence of both on social policy design. KEYWORDS: deprivation  processes,  Epistemology of the Knowing Subject, Epistemology of the Known Subject, identity, metaepistemology, poor people, poverty, resistance processes, theory creation. KEYWORDS: deprivation  processes,  Epistemology of the Knowing Subject, Epistemology of the Known Subject, identity, metaepistemology, poor people, poverty, resistance processes, theory creation.