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Socioanalytical Aspects Vulnerability of Socialist Man

Author(s): Rositsa Lubenova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Logic, Social Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: socialism; socioanalysis; social vulnerability
Summary/Abstract: Аs starting point of this text served me the hypothesis that social suffering in the so-called socialist man exist which I reached as a conclusion through my work in the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and by the use of the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol . Based on the empirical data gathered during the two-year project, I will try to highlight some of the socioanalytical aspects of the specific vulnerability of the socialist man and to prove that social suffering is a consequence of the habitualisation of the long-lasting state of vulnerability posed by the characteristic socialist governmental measures. The suffering of the people who lived under socialism is a result of the restricted access to certain positions and identities and the inability to invest in them, but also because of their retrospective self-experience as a victim of the political environment and governmental measures. This vulnerability remains symptomatically relevant due to the public's failure to recognize and misunderstand the significance and severity of the experience of the "ordinary" socialist man.

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