People living alone: alternative for independence or a way of survival?
This paper compares, reflects and investigates why a phenomenon so characteristic of industrialized countries, the increasing presence of people living alone (single-person households) due to the fact that these countries have gone through the demographic transition and place a high value on individ...
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I10-R314-article-283682020-05-01T12:33:39Z People living alone: alternative for independence or a way of survival? Personas que viven solas: ¿alternativa para la independencia o una forma de sobrevivencia? Castro Ortega, Norah Family home one-person household self-employment senior citizens child labour Hogar familiar hogar unipersonal trabajo por cuenta propia adultos mayores trabajo infantil This paper compares, reflects and investigates why a phenomenon so characteristic of industrialized countries, the increasing presence of people living alone (single-person households) due to the fact that these countries have gone through the demographic transition and place a high value on individual independence; occurs in Bolivia, characterized on the contrary by the coexistence of tradition and modernity, of pre-capitalist and capitalist forms of production, which conditions that even people with families (married and cohabiting) are seen by necessity, impelled to migrate alone to other territories of the country, which offer them labor alternatives, most of the time without any social insurance; Likewise, there is a significant presence of seniors living alone and even some children, given that in Bolivia the economically active population is counted from the age of ten. After this more general analysis, the situation of single-person households in four municipalities in the departments (the primary subdivisions of Bolivia) of Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and Potosí is shown in a more specific way, where their proportion is between 38 and 50 per cent. Also, some questions are raised, the clarification of which requires a more particularized and in-depth qualitative research and statistical analysis. Este artículo compara, reflexiona e indaga por qué un fenómeno tan propio de los países industrializados, que han atravesado por la transición demográfica y dan un alto valor a la independencia individual –con el resultado de la presencia cada vez mayor de personas que viven solas (hogares unipersonales)—, se produce en Bolivia, caracterizada, al contrario, por la coexistencia de tradición y modernidad, de formas de producción precapitalistas y capitalistas, que condicionan que personas incluso con familia (casadas/os y convivientes) se ven impelidas a migrar solas a otros territorios del país, que les ofrecen alternativas laborales, las más de las veces sin ningún aseguramiento social; asimismo, se detecta importante presencia de personas adultas mayores que viven en solitario e incluso algunas/os niñas/os, dado que en Bolivia la población económicamente activa se cuenta desde los diez años de edad. Visto lo anterior de manera general, se muestra de manera más específica la situación de los hogares unipersonales en cuatro municipios de los departamentos de Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro y Potosí, donde su proporción se ubica entre el 38 al 50 por ciento. Finalmente, se plantean algunos interrogantes cuyo esclarecimiento requiere de investigación cualitativa y análisis estadístico, más particularizado y profundo. Instituto de Política, Sociedad e Intervención Social (IPSIS) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FCS) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) 2020-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ConCienciaSocial/article/view/28368 ConCienciaSocial; Vol. 3 Núm. 6 (2020): Trabajo social contemporáneo. Cartografías de la desigualdad; 59-78 2591-5339 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ConCienciaSocial/article/view/28368/29543 |
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This paper compares, reflects and investigates why a phenomenon so characteristic of industrialized countries, the increasing presence of people living alone (single-person households) due to the fact that these countries have gone through the demographic transition and place a high value on individual independence; occurs in Bolivia, characterized on the contrary by the coexistence of tradition and modernity, of pre-capitalist and capitalist forms of production, which conditions that even people with families (married and cohabiting) are seen by necessity, impelled to migrate alone to other territories of the country, which offer them labor alternatives, most of the time without any social insurance; Likewise, there is a significant presence of seniors living alone and even some children, given that in Bolivia the economically active population is counted from the age of ten.
After this more general analysis, the situation of single-person households in four municipalities in the departments (the primary subdivisions of Bolivia) of Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and Potosí is shown in a more specific way, where their proportion is between 38 and 50 per cent.
Also, some questions are raised, the clarification of which requires a more particularized and in-depth qualitative research and statistical analysis. |
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