Social Inequality and Solidarity in Times of COVID-19

Stok, F. Marijn; Bal, Michèlle; Yerkes, Mara A.; Wit, John de

doi:10.3390/ijerph18126339

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“…Once again, the contextual factors might have played an important role in the arising of statements regarding the importance of the different forms of solidarity in order to better cope with the adversity linked to the pandemic situation. This result follows the assumption by Stok, Bal, Yerkes, and de Wit [36] that underlines the idea that the context of the pandemic allowed questioning regarding different forms of solidarities: intergenerational, between nations, and between population groups. It is also important to note that the family and marriage category received, regarding both hopes and fears, few reports.…”

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confidence: 84%

Hopes and Fears of First-Year Freshman College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Andrade

Fernandes

2022

Education Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic made the experience of being a first-year freshman college student unique. This study aims to analyze the hopes and fears of these students concerning their current life and future goals. Participating students completed the Hopes & Fears questionnaire. Results showed that students’ hopes and fears were mainly connected with domains of education and the global/collective dimension, followed by personal and family members’ health. Two new categories emerged, self-fulfillment and solidarity, reflecting the importance of the contextual dimension that these students were navigating. The findings of the current study contribute to the research of college students’ hopes and fears towards their future and accounts for the analyses of this topic as we progress to a post-pandemic phase.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Hopes and Fears of First-Year Freshman College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Andrade

Fernandes

2022

Education Sciences

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“…In short, the COVID-19 pandemic not only made existing inequalities more visible but also amplified them and created new inequalities, essentially in the most vulnerable groups in the social hierarchy (Carmo, Tavares, & Cândido, 2020;Acuña Ortigoza, 2021;Thomeer, Yahirun, & Colón-López, 2020;Warren & Bordoloi, 2020;Aguilar-Palacio et al, 2021;Ali et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Stok, Bal, Yerkes, & de Wit, 2021;Gugushvili, 2021).…”

Section: Intergenerational Inequalities and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are several examples, whether articulated or not, of intergenerational inequalities that are reproduced over time and have been enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic (Carmo et al, 2020;Stok et al, 2021;O'Keefe et al, 2021;Cheshmehzangi, 2021), in a sort of vicious cycle, fostering the creation, within the same social groups, of new inequalities, such as the institutionalization of racism, sexism and the gender divide (Gugushvili, 2021;Farquharson & Thornton, 2020;Warren & Bordoloi, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Lazonick, Moss, & Weitz, 2021;Bann et al, 2021;Pereira, Pedro, Mendes, Duarte, & Silva, 2021), ethnicity and disability (Burke, 2020;Katikireddi et al, 2021). This is the case of the studies on BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnicity) and social class (Burke, 2020), immigrants and disabilities (Warren & Bordoloi, 2020), ageism (Warren & Bordoloi, 2020), which often intersect with each other in a socio-historical perpetuation (Wang et al, 2020;Warren & Bordoloi, 2020), with profound influences on the individual's potential future social and economic path.…”

Section: Intergenerational Inequalities and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sciences and Inequalities in the New Post-COVID-19 “Normal”

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Serpa

2022

JESR

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The pandemic caused by COVID-19 (either through its direct effects by the disease it causes or the measures taken in an attempt to control its spread) had, and still has, a profound effect at several levels beyond the medical, such as the economic and social, political, scientific, psychological, educational, legal and religious levels, among others. However, studies demonstrate that this influence has not been the same for all due to old inequalities and also the emergence of new inequalities. In this letter to the Editor, the authors discuss some of the contributions of the Social Sciences to the understanding of social inequalities in this new post-COVID-19 “normal” through the mobilization of relevant literature and also their experience in analysing COVID-19 with the eyes of the Social Sciences, notwithstanding their plurality. The results of this analysis allow concluding that the Social Sciences can make a very relevant contribution – in an interdisciplinary way – to the understanding of this phenomenon of the relationship between COVID-19 and inequalities based on socioeconomic factors with the aim of increasing social cohesion and social justice. Received: 4 October 2021 / Accepted: 11 November 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

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“…The role of vaccines was also highlighted only in two papers ("Development of vaccines", "Production with promising but not yet certified vaccine", and "Availability of vaccines" [4] and "Vaccination" [15]), while [4] is the only study which accounts for the role of research institutions ("Research institutes mobilisation"). Some issues that are generally considered important factors for the spread of COVID-19 and its impact, for example, social and economic inequality [35,36], are absent in all reviewed CLDs.…”

Section: Common and Rare Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal Loop Diagramming of Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: State-of-the-Art, Gaps and Good Practices

Strelkovskii

Rovenskaya

2021

Systems

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The complexity, multidimensionality, and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted both researchers and policymakers to turn to transdisciplinary methods in dealing with the wickedness of the crisis. While there are increasing calls to use systems thinking to address the intricacy of COVID-19, examples of practical applications of systems thinking are still scarce. We revealed and reviewed eight studies which developed causal loop diagrams (CLDs) to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a broader socioeconomic system. We find that major drivers across all studies are the magnitude of the infection spread and government interventions to curb the pandemic, while the most impacted variables are public perception of the pandemic and the risk of infection. The reviewed COVID-19 CLDs consistently exhibit certain complexity patterns, for example, they contain a higher number of two- and three-element feedback loops than comparable random networks. However, they fall short in representing linear complexity such as multiple causes and effects, as well as cascading impacts. We also discuss good practices for creating and presenting CLDs using the reviewed diagrams as illustration. We suggest that increasing transparency and rigor of the CLD development processes can help to overcome the lack of systems thinking applications to address the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Social Inequality and Solidarity in Times of COVID-19

Cited by 35 publications

References 89 publications

Hopes and Fears of First-Year Freshman College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hopes and Fears of First-Year Freshman College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Sciences and Inequalities in the New Post-COVID-19 “Normal”

Causal Loop Diagramming of Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: State-of-the-Art, Gaps and Good Practices

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