Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic

Catherine C. Thomas; Michael C. Schwalbe; Macario Garcia; Geoffrey L. Cohen; Hazel Rose Markus

doi:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.03

Article Information

vol. 10 no. 4 60-83

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.03

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online August 26, 2024.

© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. Thomas, Catherine C., Michael C. Schwalbe, Macario Garcia, Geoffrey L. Cohen, and Hazel Rose Markus. 2024. “Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(4): 60–83. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.03. The authors thank the American Voices Project leadership and research staff who collected the data for this article. We are grateful to the respondents who shared their life stories and experiences during pandemic with us. We also thank Tara Hein, Bailey Nicolson, and Thomas Henri who helped with the qualitative coding. Direct correspondence to: Catherine C. Thomas, at thomascc@umich.edu, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States; Michael C. Schwalbe, at schwalbe@stanford.edu, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 420, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Catherine C. Thomas^a,*,
Michael C. Schwalbe^b,*,
Macario Garcia^c,
Geoffrey L. Cohen^d and
Hazel Rose Markus^e,*

^aAssistant professor of psychology and organizational studies at the University of Michigan, United States
^bPostdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology and the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University, United States
^cAssistant professor of anthropology at Kennesaw State University, United States
^dProfessor of psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University, United States
^eThe Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, United States