ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Social Inequalities in Bereavement: From Demographic Rates to Lived Experience
Due to the rise in human longevity, many individuals in low-mortality countries can now expect to grow old, to be survived by their children, and to know their grandchildren. Yet, these prospects are not equally shared. Social inequalities in mortality persist and may lead to inequalities in family bereavement. How exposure to bereavement is internalized by individuals and shapes their lives is a key sociological question, with the potential to establish a new research program at the intersection of social stratification, mortality, and kinship demography. Few studies have examined the impact of mortality inequalities from the perspective of the bereaved. Thus, little is known about (1) how…
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