Pathways to Social Exclusion--A Life-Course Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Backman ◽  
A. Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Exclusion

Stress-Related Biosocial Mechanisms of Discrimination and African American Health Inequities

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget J. Goosby ◽  
Jacob E. Cheadle ◽  
Colter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Pain ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Life Course Health ◽  
The Life Course

This review describes stress-related biological mechanisms linking interpersonal racism to life course health trajectories among African Americans. Interpersonal racism, a form of social exclusion enacted via discrimination, remains a salient issue in the lives of African Americans, and it triggers a cascade of biological processes originating as perceived social exclusion and registering as social pain. Exposure to discrimination increases sympathetic nervous system activation and upregulates the HPA axis, increasing physiological wear and tear and elevating the risks of cardiometabolic conditions. Consequently, discrimination is associated with morbidities including low birth weight, hypertension, abdominal obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Biological measures can provide important analytic tools to study the interactions between social experiences such as racial discrimination and health outcomes over the life course. We make future recommendations for the study of discrimination and health outcomes, including the integration of neuroscience, genomics, and new health technologies; interdisciplinary engagement; and the diversification of scholars engaged in biosocial inequities research.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Housing, Life-Course Transitions, and Old Age Social Exclusion: A Cross-Country Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 596-596
Author(s):  
Anna Wanka ◽  
Urbaniak Anna ◽  
Kieran Walsh ◽  
Frank Oswald
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Life Course Transitions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Exchange Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The international literature presents growing evidence of the impact of life transitions in older age on experiences of social exclusion, and place in general and as well as housing in particular potentially play a mediating role in this interrelation. However, the specific mechanisms through which the older adult place relationship mediates exclusionary outcomes of life-course transitions remains poorly understood in the study of ageing. This contribution investigates how older adults’ relationship to their home is interlinked with life-course transitions and old-age social exclusion. To do so, we present case studies from three different countries (Germany, Ireland and Poland), focusing on the individual experiences of retirement and bereavement, and analyze them by drawing on the concepts of the person-environment exchange processes of agency and belonging. Finally, we draw conclusions about how spatial agency and belonging can protect and empower older people at critical junctures in their lives.

scholarly journals Badges of Social Valuing and the Biography. Natalia’s Interview in the Perspective of Sociologist of Poverty and Social Exclusion

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-58
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Richard Sennett

The paper presents an attempt to analyze the interview with Natalia within the framework of sociology of poverty and from a social exclusion perspective. The information about the origins of Natalia’s interview is delineated. In the main part of the text, the author refers to the concept of the badge of ability, described by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, as a tool of social categorizing and valuing and introduces the corresponding notion of the badge of inability, ascribed to the unprivileged group members. Furthermore, the influence of both kinds of badges on the situation of Natalia’s family of origin, on her life course, and self-description are indicated with some remarks on the narrator’s biographical and identity work. The last part of the paper presents the narrator’s understanding of the world of poverty and social exclusion, its mechanisms, and conditionings.

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