socioeconomics

Examples of socioeconomics in the following topics:

• Consequences of Social Class

  • 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.
  • Sociologists may dispute exactly how to model the distinctions between socioeconomic statuses, but the higher up the class hierarchy one is in America, the better health, educational, and professional outcomes one is likely to have.
  • Describe how socioeconomic status (SES) relates to the distributiuon of social opportunities and resources

• Deviance

  • 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.

• Introduction to deviance

  • 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.

• Socioeconomic Status

  • 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.

• Tilting the Tests: Discrimination by IQ

  • 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.
  • Socioeconomic status can affect many aspects of life, and therefore seems like a likely environmental influence on intelligence.
  • 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.

• 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.

• The Lower Class

  • 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.

• 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.

• The Upper Class

  • The American upper class is the highest socioeconomic bracket in the social hierarchy and is defined by its members' great wealth and power.
  • The American upper class refers to the "top layer," or highest socioeconomic bracket, of society in the United States.
  • Households with a net worth of $1 million or more may be identified as members of the upper-most socioeconomic demographic, depending on the class model used.

• 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.