Author:
Hitlin Steven,Andersson Matthew A.
Abstract
Abstract
Social categorizations such as race, sex, age, and class imply much more than differences in resources. They also generate varying degrees of social stress. This chapter breaks out declines in subjective dignity from 2017 to 2021 for numerous demographic groups. Generally, it is found that overall losses in dignity across the pandemic have been greater for minoritized and vulnerable groups, with some exceptions. Then, the chapter documents declines in dignity linked to specific stressors, such as missing house or rent payments, increasing debt, going hungry, experiencing serious conflict at home, and being unable to afford health care. It shows how Blacks, Hispanics, women, and sexual/gender minorities are disproportionately likely to experience these stressors. Additionally, it is found that physically disabled individuals lost dignity at three times the rate of nondisabled individuals from 2017 and 2021, and this steep loss is analyzed in terms of health, work, financial, and network difficulties that disability entails.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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