ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Towards a Sociology of Debt Stratification and its Moral Foundations Across Countries
The financialization of households in the 21st century has made credit and debt central to economic disparity, reshaping financial burdens and opportunities. Debt shackles the poor, limiting mobility, yet also offers leverage for the wealthy, enabling further investment, accumulation, and opportunity. This paradox of debt lies at the heart of SOCDEBT, which is built around four key goals: (1) SOCDEBT will examine debt stratification across 35 countries over three decades, identifying the social groups most likely to be indebted, the types of debt carried, and variations across countries and time; (2) the project will explore debt accumulation, particularly in response to (adverse) life…
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