Street Children in Moscow

Using and Creating Social Capital

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3469830
AutoresSvetlana Stephenson (0000-0001-5249-8160, University of Luton, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen49
Número4
Páginas530-547
Fecha de publicación2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.00346
OpenAlexW2003080773
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas37

The paper analyses the strategies of homeless street children in Moscow connected with the accumulation of social capital. Based on recent empirical research, it looks at the involvement of children in non-criminal and criminal subcultures as a way to get access to important networks and resources, and shows how young people use their social skills and appropriate subcultural norms and values in order to build alternative careers. It demonstrates that children's social background plays an important role in their trajectories in the urban informal economy and society, and that they should not be viewed, as it is usually suggested in the social exclusion paradigm, as a single dispossessed mass which has fallen through support networks in various risk scenarios. Research data is reviewed to provide evidence that Moscow's homeless children are resourceful and deeply social agents who find surrogate families and ad hoc social memberships

Criminology · Economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Social capital · Social exclusion · Social order · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Social Capital and Networks · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies