Surviving the Great Recession: Growing Need and the Stigmatized Safety Net
Surviving the Great Recession: Growing Need and the Stigmatized Safety Net
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度过大衰退：不断增长的需求和被污名化的安全网
DOI：
10.1525/sp.2013.60.4.409
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Jennifer Sherman
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作者：
Jennifer Sherman
本文以质的研究为基础，探讨了经济大衰退对低收入家庭和贫困家庭的影响，重点探讨了经济衰退后低收入家庭面临的挑战和生存策略。对于许多失去工作的人来说，工作长期以来一直是自豪感和社会地位的重要来源，放弃这种身份往往很困难，并伴随着矛盾心理和失败感，导致多种结果，包括社会孤立、自尊和心理健康问题，最有问题的是，不愿充分利用现有的社会安全网。这篇文章调查了在美国背景下，与依赖相关的耻辱如何导致脆弱的个人和家庭在经受住经济衰退及其漫长而缓慢的复苏时遭受物质和情感上的痛苦。
Based on qualitative research, this article looks at the impacts of the Great Recession on low-income and poor families, focusing on their challenges and survival strategies in the wake of the downturn. For many individuals who have lost their jobs, work has long been an important source of pride and social standing, and letting go of this identity is often difficult and wrought with ambivalence and a sense of failure, contributing to multiple outcomes that include social isolation, self-esteem and mental health problems, and most problematically, unwillingness to fully utilize the available social safety net. This article investigates the ways in which the stigma associated with dependency in the American context contributes to the material and emotional suffering of vulnerable individuals and families as they weather the recession and its long, slow recovery.