Looking for Determinants of Ontological Security in the Spain of the Crisis

  • Javier Callejo TRANSOC - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Keywords: emotions, scale, trust, confi dence, late modernity, security

Abstract

The concept of ontological security has a remarkable echo in the current sociology to describe emotional status of men of late modernity. However, the concept created by Giddens in the eighties has been little used in empirical research covering various sources of risk or uncertainty. In this paper, a scale for ontological security is proposed. To do this, we start from the results of a research focused on the relationship between risk, uncertainty and vulnerability in the context of the economic crisis in Spain. These results were produced through nine focus groups and a telephone survey with standardized questionnaire applied to a national sample of 2,408 individuals over 18 years.

This work is divided into three main sections. In the fi rst, a scale has been built from the results of the application of different items present in the questionnaire used. The second part explores the relationships of the scale obtained with the variables further approximate the emotional dimensions of individuals. The third part observes the variables that contribute to changes in the scale: These variables show the structural feature of the ontological security.

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Published
2016-04-28
How to Cite
Callejo J. (2016). Looking for Determinants of Ontological Security in the Spain of the Crisis. Política y Sociedad, 53(2), 381-412. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_POSO.2016.v53.n2.49367