International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2017, Volume : 7, Issue : 9
First page : ( 414) Last page : ( 426)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Changing scenario of social status due to unemployment: A case study of unemployed postgraduate students

Sardar Puja

Junior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Online published on 20 June, 2019.

Abstract

Social status helps to understand the position of an individual in social hierarchy. Occupation and income one of the most important indicator of social status. We know that unemployment is a burning issue of an individual life as well as society. This paper is an attempt to examine the changing scenario of social status of an individual due to unemployed situation. Basically, the subjective social status is changed due to unemployment. It is true that objective social status is important to measure social status but it is also important to examine the subjective social status for measuring an individual social status as well as micro level study. Here, purposive sampling method is taken for primary survey and data were collected from young job seeker. From this study, it has been found that though, objective social status is same both in their student life and post student life but subjective social status has been changed significantly from student life to their post-university life. It is also seen that the recreation and mental health is affected with the change of social status. Beside this, Family approaches plays an important role to determine subjective social status of an individual.

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Keywords

Unemployment, Subjective social status, Objective social status, Change, Impact.

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