Respondent

Muntyan Iryna Volodymyrivna

Theme

Children’s  homelessness  as  a  subculture  in  a  modern Ukrainian society

Defence Date

10.05.2017

Annotation

The  theoretical  and  methodological  approaches  to  the  research  of  children’s
homelessness  are  examined  in  the  present  thesis.  The  sociological  discourse  of  the
research  of  the  specified  phenomenon  is  allocated  separately.  The  statement  about  the
necessity  of  recognition  of  homeless  children  is  not  only  the  object,  but  first  of  all  the
subject of social relations, which form personal space, using particular practices, norms,
values.
On the basis of sociological and statistical information, the results of observation
of  homeless  children’s  everyday  life,  the  results  of  deep  interviews  with  young  people
from among former and present homeless children, the author has made the sociocultural
portrait of a homeless child. The present research provides an example of implementation
of  the  mixed  methodology  that  allows  to  investigate  the  problem  in  a  complex  and  to
determine the scale and specifics of children’s homelessness in modern conditions.
The  detailed  analysis  of  homeless  children’s  everyday  life  gives  the  reason  to
examine  children’s  homelessness  as  a  particular  subculture  or  a  specific  form  of
solidarization between homeless children that sets the new valuable vectors and promotes
the development of a street «we».  The author characterizes the homeless children as a
separately existing subculture that differs in their own norms of life and behavioral rules,
the feature, that, on the one hand, is a relation to a world of childhood, but on the other
hand, is a relation to a criminal world.
Special  attention  is  paid  to  a  problem  of  adaptation  and  integration  of  young
people with their experience of homeless life to a «big society». On the basis of analysis of
deep biographical interviews the author provides life stories, survival strategies of young
people from among former and present homeless children.
On the basis of the research’s results the author outlines the main directions of
regulation of the problem of children’s homelessness on disciplinary measurements of its
implementation, taking into consideration the levels of prevention.
  Key  words:  children’s  homelessness,  subculture,  modern  Ukrainian  society,
criminal culture, children’s subculture.

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