Examples of socioeconomic status in the following topics:
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- Building on the ideas of Max Weber, who saw three main dimensions of stratification (class, status, and party), contemporary sociologists often define stratification in terms of socioeconomic status (or SES).
- These three characteristics combine to indicate someone's social class or socioeconomic status.
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- Karen Halnon of Pennsylvania State University studies informal deviance and focuses on what she calls "deviance vacations," whereby people of a certain socioeconomic status voluntarily enter another, usually lower, social strata.
- This practice represents a luxury, as heterosexual white males can afford to temporarily assume this different identity, knowing that they can return to the comforts of their regular socioeconomic status.
- Karen Halnon of Pennsylvania State University studies informal deviance and focuses on what she calls "deviance vacations," whereby people of a given socioeconomic status voluntarily enter a different, often lower, social strata.
- This behavior represents a luxury, because heterosexual white males can afford to make a temporarily shift, knowing that they may subsequently return to the comforts of their prevailing socioeconomic status.
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- Health disparities are one example of the relationship between socioeconomic status and quality of life: lower class households have higher rates of infant mortality, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and disabling physical injury than upper class households.
- 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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- Her research focuses on what she calls "deviance vacations," where people of certain socioeconomic status descend to lower strata.
- It is a vacation because heterosexual white males can afford to descend temporarily and then return to the advantages of their true socioeconomic status.
- Other examples include white hip-hop acts like Eminem and Nu-Metal bands like Limp Bizkit that mimic lower or middle class people in order to use their socioeconomic credentials for profit, despite their true socioeconomic status.
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- 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.
- Social determinants of health are the economic and social conditions, and their distribution among the population, that influence individual and group differences in health status.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Socioeconomic status can affect many aspects of life, and therefore seems like a likely environmental influence on intelligence.
- People who grow up in a community with lower socioeconomic status may have fewer enrichment opportunities (like going to museums) or a less stimulating home environment, as well as unequal access to health care, nutritious food, and quality education.
- But research suggests that differences in socioeconomic status cannot entirely explain the IQ gap.
- In part, this is because the effects of socioeconomic status are hard to isolate and measure, and are probably not independent of intelligence itself.
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- 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.
- 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.
- The role of socioeconomic status in determining access to healthcare results in heath inequality between the upper, middle, and lower or working classes, with the higher classes having more positive health outcomes.
- Describe how a low socioeconomic status (SES) can impact the health status of individuals
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- An ascribed status can also be defined as one that is fixed for an individual at birth, like sex, race, and socioeconomic background.
- Social status is most often understood as a melding of the two types of status, with ascribed status influencing achieved status.
- For example, a baby born into a high-income household has his family's high socioeconomic status as an achieved status and is more likely to be exposed to resources like a familial emphasis on education that will make it more likely for him or her to get into an elite university.
- In capitalist countries, this hierarchy is largely socioeconomic, in that high-income individuals are ranked at the top of the social hierarchy with low-income individuals at the bottom.
- When considered in light of the larger social hierarchy, this worker will probably fall somewhere toward the mid-bottom of the hierarchy because of his socioeconomic status.
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- The lower class consists of those at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy who have low education, low income, and low status jobs.
- The lower class in the United States refers to individuals who are at, or near, the lower end of the socioeconomic hierarchy.