Disability at the intersections

Shifrer, Dara; Frederick, Angela

doi:10.1111/soc4.12733

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Hence, individuals with disadvantaged social statuses are exposed to harsher life conditions, have less resources to cope, and are more vulnerable to illness than individuals with higher social status (Pearlin, 1989 ; Aneshensel, 1992 ). This paper considers disability as one such disadvantaged social category, as an axis of stratification (Shifrer & Frederick, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Stressors associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, disability, and mental health: Considerations from the Intermountain West

2021

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The deleterious mental health effects associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic are increasingly apparent, however, questions remain about the extent to which pandemic‐related stressor exposure has contributed to increased psychological distress among an already disadvantaged group, individuals with disabilities. The first aim of the study was to examine the distribution of pandemic‐related stressors across multiple dimensions—employment, personal and family finances, personal relationships, and quality of social life—among individuals with and without disabilities. The second aim of the study was to examine the association between a composite COVID‐19 stressor score and two mental health outcomes—depressive and anxiety symptoms—among the two subsamples. The study used quota‐based online survey data ( N = 2043) collected in the summer of 2020 from adults (18 and older) residing in the Intermountain West, half of whom had a self‐reported disability. Study results demonstrated that individuals with disabilities experienced pandemic‐related stressors at significantly higher rates relative to their non‐disabled counterparts. Further, pandemic stressor exposure was associated with greater negative effects on their psychological well‐being. We argue that the COVID‐19 pandemic is generating a secondary mental illness pandemic, and that individuals with disabilities are affected by it at significantly higher proportions.

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Stressors associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, disability, and mental health: Considerations from the Intermountain West

2021

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“…Disability scholars' recognition of disability as a contingent and socially constructed category similar to gender and race has been accompanied by a growth of empirical studies, most of which are concentrated in 'niche' fields such as special education research. Disability is rarely present in mainstream sociological accounts of inequality despite ongoing calls for the importance of social stratification and life-course research on disability inequalities (Jenkins, 1991;Powell, 2003;Shifrer and Frederick, 2019). This lack of empirical interest is likely linked to persisting medical understandings of disability that view inequalities as caused by impairments/conditions themselves, failing to recognize the vast heterogeneity within constructed disability categories (Powell, 2003).…”

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“…Figure 2 displays the various main activities reported by young people at age 25 by disability status and parental social class. 2 This additional layer of analysis allows us to further highlight the intersection of disability with social class, an issue frequently overlooked in empirical research (Jenkins, 1991;Shifrer and Frederick, 2019).…”

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Social Mobility and Disability: A Neglected Relationship

Chatzitheochari¹,

Velthuis²,

Connelly³

2022

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Disability theorists have long highlighted the role of institutional, social, and environmental barriers in constructing disability, emphasizing its parallels with other socially constructed axes of stratification. However, despite theoretical developments towards more sociological understandings of disability, mainstream accounts of social inequality have largely neglected disability as a social division. This research note aims to encourage social stratification and life-course research on disability by demonstrating overlooked inequalities between disabled and non-disabled young people’s social mobility and early adulthood destinations. Drawing on data from the Next Steps cohort study, our visualizations shed light on stark disability differentials, highlighting the association of disability status with parental social class in influencing young people’s early adulthood transitions. We proceed to outline future avenues for data collection and research that can contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind these inequalities

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“…The last part of our working paper examines whether disability differentials in selected outcomes vary by gender, ethnicity, and parental social class, responding to calls for intersectional analyses in disability studies (Shifrer and Frederick 2019). For this analysis, we use measures collected in Wave 1.…”

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“…Research on adolescent disability has also paid little attention to its interplay with different axes of inequality, an issue raised in several theoretical accounts of disability (Jenkins 1991;Shifrer and Frederick 2019). Such a focus can further challenge monolithic and reductionist accounts of disability as individual pathology (Liasidou 2012) by highlighting the influence of other ascriptive characteristics on the life transitions and trajectories of disabled adolescents.…”

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Adolescent Disability, Post-16 Destinations, and Early Socioeconomic Attainment: Initial Evidence from Next Steps

Velthuis¹,

Chatzitheochari²

2021

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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the prevalence of adolescent disability. However, research on the life-course transitions and trajectories of disabled adolescents remains sparse. This working paper addresses the lack of longitudinal evidence surrounding school-to-work transitions of disabled young people in England. We analyse longitudinal data from Next Steps in order to provide a descriptive analysis of post- 16 transitions and early socioeconomic attainment of disabled young people in England. Our analysis moves beyond existing studies by examining the whole range of post-16 destinations, and by exploring variation between different disability categories wherever possible. We also examine whether disability differentials in post-16 destinations and economic activity in early adulthood vary by social class, ethnicity, and gender, highlighting opportunities for intersectional analyses. Overall, our results show substantial disability differentials in post-16 destinations. We find that disabled young people are less likely to stay in post-16 education and more likely to experience unemployment compared to non- disabled peers. Results reveal inequalities in the type of post-16 education young people follow too, with disabled cohort members more likely to be in general Further Education colleges and less likely to attend school sixth forms and sixth form colleges, as well as university, compared to students with no long-standing limiting conditions and/or learning difficulties. We find pronounced disability gaps in young people’s main activity at age 25, documenting variations by other social divisions. We also outline avenues for future research on adolescent disability and social inequality.

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Disability at the intersections

Cited by 25 publications

References 115 publications

Stressors associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, disability, and mental health: Considerations from the Intermountain West

Stressors associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, disability, and mental health: Considerations from the Intermountain West

Social Mobility and Disability: A Neglected Relationship

Adolescent Disability, Post-16 Destinations, and Early Socioeconomic Attainment: Initial Evidence from Next Steps

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