Social psychology, social rights, stigmatization, collective representations, welfare state, precariousness, social hierarchy, recognition, administrative procedures
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This document explores the complex issue of non-resort to social rights by certain beneficiaries, influenced by social theories and collective representations.
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[...] Thus, the construction of a critical consciousness and a form of reciprocal demand vis-à-vis public institutions and social workers (Tiberj, 2017) is emerging in practice, guiding the individual choices of certain beneficiaries with regard to the methods of recourse or even the recourse itself. Moreover, in view of the different feedback from peers on the social offer, the 'personal networks of sociability » (Gallant et al., 2016) appear mobilized and invested by the beneficiaries who are offered institutional networks. They are a support against the twists and the Unknown that represents the world of social norms. [...]
[...] The food need thus appears as an imperative character where the planning of appointments, indispensable to the good organization of actions, demands, on the contrary, to project, to think and to 'to build their paths Borgetto, 2004). The aid request 'makes coexist simultaneously two movements characterizing this complex process, between recognition and stigmatization » (Beal et al., 2014). At the same time, a complex relationship between strength and weakness is observed (Beal et al., 2014). Will and courage allow, in fact, not to lower one's arms in the face of adversity, weakness appears, however, as the means of being recognized as a 'rightful person'. [...]
[...] The process of stigmatization thus often orients itself towards 'the categories or individuals occupying low positions in the social hierarchy, judged through their practices as deviant or abnormal in relation to the values of the dominant social order » (Joffe & Staerklé, 2007). Furthermore, and at the foundation of the phenomenological status of assignment of the aid seeker, as defined by G. Simmel (1907), a sum of oppositions or dichotomies preexists, which emerges an ambivalent relationship to the aid relationship. In fact, the self-assignment he mentions corresponds to an interactionist view of poverty where one is poor, especially and essentially, vis-à-vis the Other Lasida, 2009). [...]
