Corona Divides: How hygiene standards and systemic indispensability are experienced by physically exposed occupational groups
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Prof Dr and Dr PhD Bernhard Gill, Wilhelm ViehöverResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
Universität MünchenResearch Priority Alignment
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Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measuresResearch Subcategory
Social impactsSpecial Interest Tags
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UnspecifiedClinical Trial Details
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PendingAge Group
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Abstract
The arrangement of hygiene standards by the German government as well as the definition of systemic indispensability ("Systemrelevanz") create disadvantages for selected occupational groups which are seldom articulated in the public debate about "Corona". How do these groups experience the crisis and the management strategies to handle it? Do corresponding issues of justice cause new social cleavages? A better understanding of these issues could help to maintain social cohesion during and after the crisis although "the virus" engenders specific social contradictions.