socioeconomic factors

(noun)

Socioeconomic factors include education, income, ethnicity, race, and gender.

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Examples of socioeconomic factors in the following topics:

  • Voting Behavior

    • Voter turnout depends on socioeconomic factors such as education, income, gender, age, and race.
    • Low turnout is often considered to be undesirable, and there is much debate over the factors that affect turnout and how to increase it.
    • Socioeconomic factors significantly affect whether or not individuals voting tendencies.
    • The most important socioeconomic factor in voter turnout is education.
    • Age is another crucial factor determining voter turnout.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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?

  • Physical Health

    • While gender and race play significant roles in explaining healthcare inequality in the United States, socioeconomic status (SES) is the greatest social determinant of an individual's health outcome.
    • Social determinants are environmental, meaning that they are risk factors found in one's living and working conditions (including the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics).
    • Individuals of lower socioeconomic status have lower levels of overall health, less insurance coverage, and less access to adequate healthcare than those of higher SES.
    • In addition to having an increased level of illness, lower socioeconomic classes have lower levels of health insurance than the upper class.
    • Describe how a low socioeconomic status (SES) can impact the health status of individuals

  • Social Status

    • An ascribed status can also be defined as one that is fixed for an individual at birth, like sex, race, and socioeconomic background.
    • Pulling back into a larger perspective, these same factors accumulate into a system of social stratification.
    • Simply, social mobility allows a person to move into a social status other than the one into which he was born depending upon one's ambition, lack thereof, or other factors.
    • According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.
    • According to Bourdieu's 1979 work Distinction, social capital is just as significant a factor in social status as economic capital.