Independent. The process of self-empowerment in biographical experiences of former pupils of resocialization institutions
Independent. The process of self-empowerment in biographical experiences of former pupils of resocialization institutions

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the process of self-empowerment of women who in the past had stayed in social rehabilitation centers. In order to illustrate the subject matter, narrative interviews (together with the proper analytical procedure of F. Schütze) with women who had been in youth educational centers were used. Based on the analysis of the obtained material, the methods of implementing various forms of support within the procedure of the former wards’ self-empowerment were reconstructed, as they were revealed in their individual biographical experiences. On the one hand, the procedure of self-empowerment promotes social readaptation, understood as adaptation to active life through social roles. On the other hand, such forms of support as financial aid for continuing education, which does not enable independent living, and appropriate housing conditions in social housing, which locate people in “pathological social space”, constitute a peculiar charade of the provided support.

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