| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | The accumulation of disadvantages : a critical assessment |
| Authors: | Oris, Michel Baeriswyl, Marie Gabriel, Rainer Ihle, Andreas |
| et. al: | No |
| Conference details: | Lecture Series of The Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022 |
| Issue Date: | 7-Nov-2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Life course; Inequality; Aging; Cognitive reserve |
| Subject (DDC): | 305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) |
| Abstract: | During the last decades, the theory of cumulative (dis)advantages has been one of the most influential in life course sociology. This theory stimulated many researches on the construction of social and health inequalities in old age across the life course Recent syntheses have shown that accumulation of disadvantages and accumulation of advantages are not symmetric. In this lecture, prepared jointly with with Marie Baeriswyl, Rainer Gabriel, Andreas Ihle, we focus on the former, on the dark side, on the disadvantaged, on the 'bottom-of-the-pyramid. First, we insist on one dimension, income poverty in old age. Results achieved thanks the Swiss NCCR LIVES are contrasted with the international literature. Everywhere, early-life conditions (family context, education) were decisive. Later in life, across adulthood, various welfare regimes governed the life courses. But as a rule, most limited the triggering processes associated to a low education. A modest safety net prevented the accumulation of disadvantages and resulted instead in a "cumulative continuity" at a low level. More recent analyses, however, have shown the limits of this stability: older adults who have been blue collars are more at risk of falling into poverty. Second, to go beyond those syntheses, we want to make a step further toward an interdisciplinary approach of a minority group: We will draw the portrait of the older adults who did not benefit from the progresses in health and living conditions that have changed the realities of aging during the last decades. We do that trough an integration of the researches on the life course construction of socioeconomic inequalities with those devoted to the roots of interindividual variability in cognitive performances. We also calculate at which point a penalty (or deficit) in a given dimension is associated with other penalties, counting those who are simultaneously: income poor, cognitively underperforming, frail, without social participation, alone, etc. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26368 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Social Work |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Diversity and Social Integration (IVGT) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Soziale Arbeit |
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Oris, M., Baeriswyl, M., Gabriel, R., & Ihle, A. (2022, November 7). The accumulation of disadvantages : a critical assessment. Lecture Series of the Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022.
Oris, M. et al. (2022) ‘The accumulation of disadvantages : a critical assessment’, in Lecture Series of The Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022.
M. Oris, M. Baeriswyl, R. Gabriel, and A. Ihle, “The accumulation of disadvantages : a critical assessment,” in Lecture Series of The Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022, Nov. 2022.
ORIS, Michel, Marie BAERISWYL, Rainer GABRIEL und Andreas IHLE, 2022. The accumulation of disadvantages : a critical assessment. In: Lecture Series of The Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022. Conference presentation. 7 November 2022
Oris, Michel, Marie Baeriswyl, Rainer Gabriel, and Andreas Ihle. 2022. “The Accumulation of Disadvantages : A Critical Assessment.” Conference presentation. In Lecture Series of the Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022.
Oris, Michel, et al. “The Accumulation of Disadvantages : A Critical Assessment.” Lecture Series of the Spanish National Research Council and the Fundación BBVA: Demography Today, Madrid, Spain, 7 November 2022, 2022.
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