Social Construction of Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Age in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hindy Lauer Schachter

doi:10.37808/paq.46.2.5

Social Construction of Vulnerable Populations: The Case of Age in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hindy Lauer Schachter

MT School of Management

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This article explores the role of social construction in public administrators’ differential treatment of older Americans as a vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis compares differences in how both federal and state web sites reacted to information that increased age and male sex correlated with negative COVID-19 outcomes and relates these differences in presentation to hegemonic constructions of each group.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	178-191
Number of pages	14
Journal	Public Administration Quarterly
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.46.2.5
State	Published - 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Public Administration

Keywords

Social construction
age discrimination
intersectionality

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