socioeconomic factors
(noun)
Socioeconomic factors include education, income, ethnicity, race, and gender.
Examples of socioeconomic factors in the following topics:
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Socioeconomic Factors
- Depending on socioeconomic factors like wealth, education, or occupation, people are more or less likely to vote.
- Socioeconomic status (SES) is determined by an individual's level of education, income, and occupation.
- Socioeconomic factors significantly affect whether or not individuals develop the habit of voting.
- The most important socioeconomic factor affecting voter turnout is education .
- Studies show that this is true, even controlling for other factors that are closely associated with education level, such as income and class.
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Race and Ethnicity
- Racial disparities in health care often center around socioeconomic status, diet, and education.
- Many explanations for such differences have been argued, including socioeconomic factors, lifestyle behaviors, social environment, and access to preventive health-care services among other environmental differences.
- In multiracial societies, such as the United States, racial groups differ greatly in regard to social and cultural factors, such as socioeconomic status, healthcare, diet, and education.
- There is also the presence of racism, which some see as a very important explaining factor.
- Some argue that for many diseases, racial differences would disappear if all environmental factors could be controlled for.
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Tilting the Tests: Discrimination by IQ
- Furthermore, the relationship between genetics and environmental factors is likely complicated.
- For example, the differences in socioeconomic environment for a child may be due to differences in genetic IQ for the parents, and the differences in average brain size between races could be the result of nutritional factors.
- For example, the differences in socioeconomic environment for a child may be due to differences in genetic IQ for the parents, and the differences in average brain size between races could be the result of nutritional factors.
- But research suggests that differences in socioeconomic status cannot entirely explain the IQ gap.
- Discuss the various explanations for the IQ gap, ranging from genetic to environmental factors
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Social Class and Health
- From the differences in socioeconomic and environmental characteristics of different ethnic and racial groups.
- While gender and race play significant factors in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status is the greatest determining factor in an individual's level of access to healthcare.
- Individuals of lower socioeconomic status in the United States experience a wide array of health problems as a result of their economic status.
- Furthermore, individuals of lower socioeconomic status have less education and often perform jobs without significant health and benefits plans, whereas individuals of higher standing are more likely to have jobs that provide medical insurance.
- They are risk factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics) that influence the risk for a disease, injury, or vulnerability to disease or injury.
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Social Class
- While gender and race play significant factors in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status is the greatest determining factor in an individual's level of access to healthcare.
- Individuals of lower socioeconomic status in the United States experience a wide array of health problems as a result of their economic status.
- Furthermore, individuals of lower socioeconomic status have less education and often perform jobs without significant health and benefits plans, whereas individuals of higher standing are more likely to have jobs that provide medical insurance.
- They are risk factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics) that influence the risk for a disease, injury, or vulnerability to disease or injury.
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Questions for Discussion
- What factors do you think led you to getting the job and what factors affected the salary that you received?
- 2) How do you think your gender, race, and socioeconomic position have affected your path through life so far?
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Context of Creation
- The political, socioeconomic, and cultural setting that a work of art is created in will affect how it is perceived within art history.
- Art historians study the contextual forces that shaped artists and their oeuvres, including their teachers and the influences of preceding styles; their patrons and their demands; their audiences; and their general socioeconomic, political, and cultural climate.
- These factors produce and influence different artistic styles and iconography, which are characteristic of their age and geographical location with reference to visual appearance, technique, and form.
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Consequences of Social Class
- Social class refers to the the grouping of individuals in a stratified hierarchy based on wealth, income, education, occupation, and social network (though other factors are sometimes considered).
- Regardless of which model of social classes used, it is clear that socioeconomic status (SES) is tied to particular opportunities and resources.
- Socioeconomic status refers to a person's position in the social hierarchy and is determined by their income, wealth, occupational prestige, and educational attainment.
- While social class may be an amorphous and diffuse concept, with scholars disagreeing over its definition, tangible advantages are associated with high socioeconomic status.
- Describe how socioeconomic status (SES) relates to the distributiuon of social opportunities and resources
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Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics
- Political socialization experiences differ depending on group membership, such as socioeconomic status, gender, or geography.
- Socioeconomic status is determined by people's levels of education, income, and occupation.
- Oftentimes, they have been raised by parents who are of the same socioeconomic status, who socialize them to believe in the importance of political participation.
- Cultural factors contribute to the lower levels of Asian American and Pacific Islander voting; for example, some are recent immigrants who still maintain strong ties to their ethnic culture.
- Describe the ways in which race, gender, socioeconomic status, and geographical region influence how people are politically socialized.
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Aging and Race
- Rather, the disparity in medical outcomes is more likely attributed to social determinants of health, which are socioeconomic conditions that bear on health.
- In addition, individuals from a poorer socioeconomic background are less likely to have had access to healthcare throughout their whole lives.
- Thus, while one can make generalizations about elder health by comparing racial categories, these differences are frequently caused by differences in socioeconomic status rather than race.
- Are the problems the elderly face a result of their age, or are their other, more influential, factors involved, such as race?