Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship

Chatzitheochari, Stella; Velthuis, Sanne; Connelly, Roxanne

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12974

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“…These findings mirror those of literature focusing on non-disabled children (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990;Calarco, 2018;Lareau, 2011), and also align with research surrounding the importance of social class for students of ethnic minorities (Gillborn and Mizra, 2000). We contend that inequalities in exposure to structural discrimination and in-school learning support may explain part of the documented class differences in educational outcomes of disabled young people (Chatzitheochari and Platt, 2019;Chatzitheochari et al 2022) and thus deserve further analytical attention.…”

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“…The association of childhood disability with socio-economic disadvantage is well documented: disabled children and young people are more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds (Spencer et al, 2015), and to lag behind in educational and occupational attainment in adulthood (Chatzitheochari and Platt, 2019; Chatzitheochari et al, 2022; Janus, 2009). Despite theoretical shifts towards sociological models of disability, the formation of these inequalities remains largely overlooked within mainstream empirical sociology and life-course research (Chatzitheochari and Platt, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

Chatzitheochari

Butler-Rees

2022

Sociology

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Recent decades have witnessed a renewed interest in stigma and its effects on life-course trajectories of disabled people. However, sociological narratives largely adopt monolithic understandings of disability, neglecting contextual meanings of different impairments and conditions and their intersections with other ascriptive inequalities, which may be consequential for exposure to stigma. Our article provides an intersectional analysis of disabled young people’s lived experiences of stigma in mainstream school settings. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 35 autistic, dyslexic and/or physically disabled students, we show that stigmatisation is contingent on social class background, which affects students’ location within the school. We also find substantial variation in experiences of stigma between and within sub-categories of conditions/impairments, as a consequence of the perceived distance from normative ideals of skills and behaviour attached to individuals in school settings. Our findings highlight the importance of intersectional analyses of stigma, challenging universalised views about stigmatised disabled people.

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Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

Chatzitheochari

Butler-Rees

2022

Sociology

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“…When asked how endo affected education, an interviewee replied: "Well, it took me seven years to finish high school." 19 Two interviewees were not able to graduate from high school due to their health, exemplifying how childhood disability can have a negative effect on social mobility (Chatzitheochari et al, 2022).…”

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Endo Time: Endometriosis and the Flow of Recognition

Hallström

2024

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The relation between time and gender has been extensively discussed in feminist theory, from Simone de Beauvoir to recent studies of queer temporality and crip time. In this article, I explore gender as “lived time” in relation to a pressing feminist issue: social recognition of the chronic illness endometriosis (endo). Based on my interviews with individuals diagnosed with endo, I argue that lived time can be studied by approaching becoming as a dynamic process or flow of recognition, creating certain temporal patterns in the lifeworld. I propose the concept of “endo time” as a phenomenological conception of the lived time of endo. I identify three temporal patterns that characterize endo time: waiting time (I), cyclical or chronic time (II), and sedimented time (III). The analysis contributes to feminist philosophy by detailing how gender appears as a specific orchestration of time. Because of its connection to feminized pain and menstrual flow on the one hand and social recognition on the other, endo presents an illuminating case for exploring the relation between gender, recognition, and lived time.

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“…In a recent study, Chatzitheochari et al. (2022) explored the links between childhood disabilities and social mobility using a nationally representative cohort study for England. We complement this research by employing a Norwegian sample of high‐quality register‐based data on individuals with various impairments and chronic health conditions diagnosed early in life, and compare their intergenerational income mobility trajectories with a random population sample.…”

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Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility

Gugushvili,

Dokken,

Grue

et al. 2023

British Journal of Sociology

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Individuals who have congenital conditions or become disabled early in life tend to have poorer educational and occupational outcomes than non‐disabled individuals. Disability is known to be a complex entity with multiple causations, involving, inter alia, physiological, social, economic, and cultural factors. It is established that social factors can influence educational and occupational attainment for disabled people, and current disability policy in many countries, particularly in the Global North, stress the importance of equality of opportunity. However, there is a scarcity of research that explores the specific degrees to which advanced welfare states contribute to the equalization of life chances for individuals with early‐life impairments and chronic health conditions. In this study, we use a Norwegian sample of high‐quality register data on individuals with vision loss, hearing loss, physical impairment, type 1 diabetes, asthma, and Down syndrome diagnosed early in life and compare their intergenerational income mobility trajectories with a random sample drawn from the country's entire population. We find that individuals' early‐life diagnoses are linked to significantly worse income outcomes in adulthood than what is observed among the general population. We conclude that even in one of the most advanced egalitarian welfare states, such as Norway, much remains to be done to equalize life chances for individuals with early‐life impairments and chronic health conditions.

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Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship

Cited by 11 publications

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Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

Endo Time: Endometriosis and the Flow of Recognition

Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility

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