Temporal Misalignment and Unequal Agency: What Terminal Cancer Patients Teach Us about Time and Inequality
Published online on June 10, 2026
Abstract
American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 4, Page 545-571, August 2026.
This article examines how time both exacerbates and destabilizes existing inequality by stratifying agency. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in nine cancer clinics and 196 in-depth interviews with 96 patients navigating a terminal cancer diagnosis ...
This article examines how time both exacerbates and destabilizes existing inequality by stratifying agency. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in nine cancer clinics and 196 in-depth interviews with 96 patients navigating a terminal cancer diagnosis ...