From poverty to wellbeing: Children as subjects of sociological research and emerging agents on the policy arena in Estonia

• Authors: Kutsar Dagmar

Title variants

PL

Od ubóstwa do jakości życia: dzieci jako podmiot w badaniach socjologicznych i na arenie politycznej Estonii

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to present a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia: how it has developed from the social and political acknowledgement of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s onwards, and how child poverty research has contributed to the development of political thought. The paper follows the use of a new paradigm of childhood research, and revisits the methodological approaches and main research findings that have enhanced the understanding of children as a new policy interest group in politics.

PL

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja badań nad biedą dzieci prowadzonych w Estonii od wczesnych lat 1990, gdy biedę uznano za kwestię społeczną, aż do dzisiaj, oraz wskazanie wkładu badań nad biedą dzieci w rozwój myślenia politycznego. Autorka ukazuje zastosowanie nowego paradygmatu w badaniach nad dzieciństwem, dokonuje także przeglądu strategii metodologicznych i rezultatów badawczych, które przyczyniły się do konceptualizacji dzieci jako nowej grupy interesów w polityce społecznej.

Keywords

EN

child poverty research; relative deprivation; exclusion; children in policies; children’s perspective; Estonia

PL

badania biedy dzieci; relatywna deprywacja; wykluczenie; dzieci w politykach; perspektywa dzieci, Estonia

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologiczny
• Year: 2015
• Volume: LXIV (64)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-42

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Kutsar Dagmar

• Institute of Social Studies, Lossi 36, 51003 Tartu, Estonia

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Identifiers

ISSN

0033-2356