UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 7th Annual International Postgraduate Conference
Inclusion Exclusion
Friday 17 February 12:00 – 1:30: Panel E1: Social Exclusion
Lucie Kasparová (Masaryk University, Brno): ‘Long-term unemployment and Social Identity
My paper focuses on the problem of the impact of long-term unemployment on social identity. Social identity and the activity (or inactivity) of individual on the labour market are closely connected, e.g. through consumption, leisure time and interpersonal contacts. Account on long-term unemployment these sources of social identity change and cause variation in social identity, too.As some studies show, long-term unemployment does not affect the social identity of unemployed people in the Czech Republic so significant as in other states of the EU. That is what I am interested in. Is it really a fact which is valid in the whole Czech society? Or is it a situation typical only for homogenous environment, e.g. the city with high unemployment rate?
After theoretical chapter about the problem of social identity I briefly report on the long-term unemployment in the Czech Republic. Than I present my analysis of the pilot interviews with long-term unemployed persons in Brno. Primarily, I focus on three problems: material deprivation, leisure activities and change of the interpersonal contacts. These spheres correspond with economical, cultural and social dimensions of social exclusion.
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