How women, designated as poor, reconstruct identities and ways of life? — the PRSI or the processes of re-qualifying social-identity

• Main Author: Maria de Fátima Toscano
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Foundation Pro Scientia Publica 2014-12-01
• Series: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Subjects: social disqualification; poverty; sociology of the identities; oral data; qualitative methodologies; women
• Online Access: http://nowadays.home.pl/JECS/data/documents/JECS=202014=20=282=29=2075.81.pdf
• ISSN: 2081-1640; 2081-1640

The sociological qualitative analysis of social identities and of the meanings of social action, the grounded theory and the ‘writing as analytical praxis qualitative-method’ have permitted me the co-creation of women biographies of un-qualifying/re-qualifying — oral discourses about their migration at the Pays Basque. I argue that the “poverty studies traditions” reproduce and contains seven (7) epistemological obstacles and formulations on negative terms, and I underline theoretical contributors to the Identities Sociology, discussing the oppositions “personal/social” (Social-Psi), and “determined-objectives identities/assumed-subjective identities” (Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons and Pierre Bourdieu). So, I define “social identities” as the way the social-actor becomes a social-sujet (on the tradition of Touraine), considering three components (to explain). Defining oral discourses as the condition to co-construct the social experience, I identify and explain, at the re-qualifying processes: 1) several reaction phases – on positive terms – and social-identities territory’s implicated, as multiple meanings of the social action and identity-strategies (Risc, Strategic-Sacrifice); 2) four identity resources-capitals negotiated, affected, connected or stimulated.