Socioeconomic status is a term which is often contrasted with social class. Socioeconomic status, largely an American usage, was developed as a way to operationalize or measure social class on the assumptions that class groupings are not real groups. Socioeconomic status is a rather arbitrary category and is developed by combining the position or score of persons on criteria such as income, amount of education, type of occupation held, or neighborhood of residence. The scores can then be arbitrarily divided so as to create socioeconomic divisions such as upper class, middle class, lower class.
Index of socio-economic status was modelled as a linear combination of parents' education (fathers' and mothers' education), previous and present family social class based on fathers' occupation. Sociologists are interested in socioeconomic status, as they are in class, since it is assumed that this status affects life chances in numerous ways.
Socioeconomic Status and Delinquent Behavior: A Retest - Ronald L. Akers.
Abstract: F. Ivan Nye conducted a study in Washington in which he strongly questioned the traditional findings of a preponderance of delinquent behavior among the lower classes. Using self-reported behavior rather than official criteria, he found no significant relationship between delinquent behavior and socioeconomic status. A number of significance tests revealed no statistically significant difference in delinquent behavior by socioeconomic status, and correlational analysis revealed no correlation between the two variables. Thus, those theories of delinquency positing a disproportionate amount of delinquent behavior in the lower socioeconomic status levels are again met with empirical contradiction, this time in a large city.
Assessing the
Socioeconomic Status of Families - Albert F. Osborn.
Abstract: Occupational classifications have been the conventional method of
assigning individuals, families and household to social class or socioeconomic
status positions. This article proposes an alternative method of assessing the
socioeconomic status of families by means of a composite Social Index comprising
seven social indicators. The construction and rationale of the Index are described and its
special advantages explained.
These include the capability of providing an
assessment of the socioeconomic status of single-parent families having no
relevant occupational information, and increased sensitivity and reliability
compared with OPCS social class.
Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status, by Franklin Ng, is about Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture.
Socioeconomic Position, Gender and Health - How Do They Interact?
Sally MacIntyre, Kate
Hunt.
Abstract: There is a large research literature on socioeconomic inequalities in health; there is also a large literature on gender
differences in health. However, the two bodies of
research are rarely integrated to ask, for example, whether socioeconomic inequalities
vary by gender, or whether gender differences vary by socioeconomic status or position.
This article reviews the intersection of socioeconomic status or
position and gender, and argues for more systematic and symmetrical examination of the
interaction between socioeconomic status or position and gender in the social patterning
of health.
Health and Socioeconomic Position - A Commentary
Douglas Carroll, George
Davey Smith.
Abstract: This Special Issue focuses on health variations contingent on socioeconomic
status or position. Among the numerous reasons why health psychologists should attend to
such variations are their pervasiveness. piaget replica watches The latter raises the possibility that psychosocial factors may
be involved. Recent data revealing that socioeconomic health inequalities have increased
in recent years, in parallel with increasing income inequalities in countries such as the
UK and USA, provide further reason. However,Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Replica effective intervention will require
structural approaches that directly counter socioeconomic disparity.
Physical Activity Behaviors in Lower and Higher Socioeconomic Status
Populations.
Earl S. Ford, Robert K. Merritt, Gregory W. Heath, Kenneth E. Powell, Richard A. Washburn,
Andrea Kriska and Gwendolyn Haile.
Abstract: Few data on physical activity habits among populations of low socioeconomic status have been published. Higher socioeconomic status women spent significantly more time each week in leisure-time physical activity, job-related physical activity, and household physical activity than did lower socio-economic status women.
Lower socioeconomic status men spent significantly more time each week walking and doing household chores, whereas higher socioeconomic status men tended to be more active in leisure-time physical activity. In view of the important role of physical activity in promoting physical and mental health, reasons for the differences among groups of varying socioeconomic status must be examined and elucidated.
SocioEconomic Status And Living
Arrangements Of Older Persons In Lithuania by Sarmite Mikulioniene and V. Stankuniene.
Coordinated Approach to Raising the SocioEconomic Status of Latinos in C Alifornia by
Elias Lopez, Ginny Puddefoot, and Patricia Bandara
The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the United States and the
contribution of socioeconomic status [An article from: Social Science & Medicine] by
P. Franks, P. Muennig, E. Lubetkin, and H. Jia
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: the case for a reformed SES funding
scheme.(socioeconomic status): An article from: Australian Journal of Education by Louise
Watson
Individual socio-economic status, community socioeconomic status and stroke in New
Zealand: A case control study. by P. Brown, M. Guy, and J. Broad
The impact of socioeconomic status on the practice, perception and attitudes of secondary
school girls towards Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).: An article from: Ahfad Journal by
Ahmed Abdel Magied, Huda Failed, Marwa Salama, and Hanaa Salama (Digital - Jul 31, 2005) -
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Social capital, socioeconomic status and psychological distress among Australian adults
[An article from: Social Science & Medicine] by P. Phongsavan, T. Chey, A. Bauman, and
R. Brooks.
Students' attitude towards religion in relation to personality characteristics,
intelligence, and socioeconomic status by O. P Kohli.
Children of Preschool Age: Studies in SocioEconomic Status, Social Adjustment and Mental
Ability, with Illustrative Cases by Ethel Kawin.
Resting frontal brain activity: linkages to maternal depression and socioeconomic status
among adolescents. by A.J. Tomarken, G.S. Dichter, J. Garber, and C. Simien.
Air pollution, health, and socioeconomic status: the effect of outdoor air quality on
childhood asthma. by M.J. Neidell.
Vitamin A deficiency among children from low socioeconomic status living in different
environments in Khartoum State.: An article from: Ahfad Journal by Elham Ahmed Hamed,
Ahmed Abdel Magied, and Ammar Hassan Khamis.
Understanding the role of mediating risk factors and proxy effects in the association
between socioeconomic status and untreated hypertension [An article from: Social Science
& Medicine] by A. Colin Bell, L.S. Adair,bell & ross br01 replica and B.M. Popkin.
Eco Tipping Points: how a vicious cycle can become virtuous.(Thailand's socioeconomic
status): An article from: Earth Island Journal by Amanda Suutari and Gerald Marten.
Inequity and disparity in oral health--Part II. Socioeconomic status and deprivation: can
dental hygiene diminish the impact?(EVIDENCE FOR PRACTICE): ... from: Canadian Journal of
Dental Hygiene by Joanna Asadoorian.
Socioeconomic Status and Living Arrangements of Older Persons in Finland by Economic
Commission for Europe, Anneli Miettinen, Mauri Nieminen, and United Nations.
CHILDREN OF PRESCHOOL AGEStudies in SocioEconomic Status, Social Adjustment and Mental
Ability, with Illustrative Cases by Ethel Kawin.
Health hazards and socioeconomic status: a neighbourhood cohort approach, Vancouver,
1976-2001.: An article from: The Canadian Geographer by Michael Buzzelli, Jason Su, Nhu
Le, and Tenny Bache.
Sister to Sister Gestational 'Surrogacy' 13 Years on: A Narrative of Parenthood / Prenatal
Depression Effects on the Foetus and Neonate in Different Ethnic and SocioEconomic Status
Groups / Using the Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire (Journal of Reproductive and Infant
Psychology, Volume 20, Number 3 - August 2002) by PhD Suzanne Zeedyk.
John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of
perceived stress among high socioeconomic status Asian immigrants [An article from:
Social Science & Medicine] by J. Haritatos, R. Mahalingam, and S.A. James.
Children of Preschool Age Studies in SocioEconomic Status, Social Adjustment and Mental
Ability, with Illustrative Cases by Ethel Kawin.
Children's education and maturation process: A study in relation to socioeconomic status,
sex, and intelligence by Pushpa Agarwal.
Differences in attachment security between African-American and white children: ethnicity
or socioeconomic status? [An article from: Infant Behavior and Development] by M.J.
Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.H.v. IJzendoorn, and Kroo.
Children's growth and socio-economic status in Hungary [An article from: Economics and
Human Biology] by O. Eiben and C. Mascie-Taylor
Muslims in India: Their Educational, Demographic and Socio-Economic Status With
Inter-Community Comparisons Based on Field Survey Conducted in 1991 by Aijazuddin Ahmad
A census-based socio-economic status (SES) index as a tool to examine the relationship
between mental health services use and deprivation [An article from: Social Science &
Medicine] by J.E. Tello, J. Jones, P. Bonizzato, and M. Mazzi
TOBACCO USE: DO SMOKEFREE AIR POLICIES, POLITICAL FACTORS, HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE
FACTORS, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS MATTER? by Sesime Adanu
Diversity, regeneration status and socio-economic importance of the vegetation in the
islands of Lake Ziway, south-central Ethiopia by H. Zegeye, D. Teketay, and E. Kelbessa
Women, family demands and health: the importance of employment status and socio-economic
position by L. Artazcoz, C. Borrell, J. Benach, and I. Cortes
A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide
by The EU Working Group, V. Lorant, A.E. Kunst, and Huisma
Socio-Economic Status And Living Arrangements Of Older Persons In Latvia by Latvijas
Universit Ate.