The inability of people, organizations, and societies to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed. These impacts are due in part to characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions, and systems of cultural values.
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The Puzzle on Unemployment Factors and the Welfare State Role in Greece: What University Students Believe
Argyris Kyridis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Maria Pavlis Korres (General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning, Greece & Hellenic Open University, Greece), Christos Dimitrios Tourtouras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Nikos Fotopoulos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), and Christos Zagkos (Center of Educational Policy Development (KANEP/GSEE), Greece)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2008-5.ch013
Abstract
In an era of major technological, digital and scientific achievement, in the modern post-industrial globalized society of great contradictions, problems and conflicts, the unemployment phenomenon, which affects young people to a greater extent, is exacerbated. Greece is the country that was affected more than any other country in southern Europe by the multiple effects of the economic crisis, which among others catapulted youth unemployment to unprecedented levels. This chapter presents a research on views and attitudes analysis of male and female students of higher education in Greece towards unemployment as a social phenomenon, towards stereotypical attitudes on unemployment, as well as towards the ways and forms of the research phenomenon configuration. Subsequently, this research attempts to record, analyze and interpret the students' views and attitudes towards the Greek welfare state, thoroughly studying the correlations of all the above data.