SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS!

For Good Health, It Helps To Be Rich and Important: Research demonstrates that social class–as measured not just by income but also by education and other markers of relative status–is one of most powerful predictors of health, more powerful than genetics, exposure to carcinogens, even smoking; shows that with wide variety of illnesses, the higher the rung on the socioeconomic ladder, the lower the risk; relationship holds even at upper reaches of society, where it might seem that abundance of resources would even things out; gap in life expectancy between blacks and white decreases substantially once socioeconomic status is taken into account; graph (M)

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: socioeconomic status (SES) is an economic and sociological combined measure of a person’s work experience and of an individual’s economic and social position in relation to others . household income, earners’ education, and occupation education in higher socioeconomic families is typically stressed as much more important . in poorer areas, where food, shelter and safety are priority, education can take a backseat . youth audiences are particularly at risk for many health and income can be looked at in two terms, relative and absolute . income is a commonly used measure of SES because it is relatively easy to figure for most individuals . absolute income is the relationship in which as income increases, so will income inequality is most commonly measured around the world by the Gini coefficient . 0 corresponds to perfect equality and 1 means perfect inequality . low-income families focus on meeting immediate needs and do not accumulate wealth . education plays a pivotal role in skillsets for acquiring jobs . education plays specific qualities that stratify people with higher SES from lower SES . Annette lareau speaks on the idea of concerted research shows children born in lower SES households have weaker language skills . lower-income families can have children who do not succeed to the levels of the middle-income children . research shows lower-sector students have lower and a student of low SES and low self-esteem should not be reinforced by educators . teachers need to view students as individuals and not as a member of an SES group . Raising the level of instruction can help to teachers relating content taught to students’ prior knowledge and relating it to real-world experiences can improve achievement . it is important that all are educated, understand, and be able to speak openly about SES . some of the most prestigious occupations are physicians and surgeons, lawyers, chemical and biomedical engineers, university professors, and communications analysts . the jobs with lower rankings include food preparation workers, counter attendants, bartender many scales rank occupations based on the level of skill involved, from unskilled to skilled manual labour to professional . some scales use a combined measure using the education level needed and income involved . wealth reflects intergenerational transitions as well as accumulation of income and savings . income, age, marital status, family size, religion, occupation, and education predict wealth attainment . racial wealth gap due in the amount a person inherits, either during a lifetime or after death, can create different starting points . discrimination feeds into other reasons why african americans end up with fewer assets . the racial socioeconomic status is an important source of health inequity . there is a robust positive correlation between social status and health . parents with a low social status cannot afford many of the health care resources . lower socioeconomic status has been linked to chronic stress, heart disease, ulcers, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, certain types of cancer, and premature aging . there is debate regarding the cause of studies found strong correlation between social status and health . no amount of medical attention will help decrease the likelihood of diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis . there is no significant relationship between SES and stress during pregnancy . at 10 months, children of high SES hear on average 400 more words than their low SES peers . different parenting styles shape tone and purpose of verbal interactions between parent and child . parents of low SES tend toward more authoritarian styles of address . their conversations with their children contain more imperatives and yes/no questions . working class individuals often hold low power, subordinate positions in the occupational world authoritarian style of address prepares children for roles that require a more accommodating and compliant personality . low SES parents see the family as more hierarchical, with the parents at the top of the power structure . high low SES parents view power disparity between parent and child as detrimental to the family . high SES conversations are characterized by a give and take . these interactions help prepare children for occupations that require greater expressivity . by age 3, there are significant differences in the amount of dialogue and vocabulary growth between children of low and high SES . a lack of joint attention in children contributes to poor vocabulary growth . with joint attention, a child and low SES contributes to difficulty with complex sentence structures . a child sees an animal running outside and the mom points to it . joint attention thus facilitates word learning for children . high SES affects the production of complex sentences include sentences that have more than one verb phrase . the emergence of simple sentence structures is seen as a structure that is obligatory in everyday speech . low SES parents ask fewer response-coaxing high SES households ask their children broad questions to cultivate speech development . exposure to more questions positively contributes to children’s vocabulary growth and complex noun phrase constructions . children apply grammatical rules compared to children research also finds that the gap in ability to pluralize nouns and adjectives does not diminish by age or schooling . children of low SES between the second and sixth grades are found to have low phonological awareness . children of low SES are already born with low levels of phonological awareness . their environment does not foster its growth . the goal is to highlight the strengths low income families possess in raising children . since 2012, there has been some research on the Shift-and-persist model . reading assessments that test reading growth include measures on basic reading skills . high SES children begin as better readers than their low SES counterpart low SES children are considerably behind their high SES peers in reading growth . children living in a poor home with inadequate living conditions are more likely to be susceptible to illness and injuries . the disparities in experiences in the home environment children of low SES status are read to less often and have fewer books in the home than their high SES peers . the home environment makes the largest contribution to the prediction of initial kindergarten reading disparities . Characteristics of students’ reading levels are first assessed in kindergarten . families rely on their families for their reading growth . family SES is also associated with reading achievement growth during the summer . summer setback disproportionately affects African american and low SES children are more likely to grow up in such neighborhood conditions than their high SES peers . community support for the school and poor physical conditions surrounding the school are also associated with children’s reading . neighborhood factors help explain the low SES children in poor neighborhood environments fall further behind high SES peers in reading growth . low-income families moved from poor neighborhoods to suburban neighborhoods reduce delinquency in children . low SES peers tend to have limited skills and fewer economic resources than high SES children . the most rapid growth of reading ability happens between the spring of kindergarten and first grade . teacher experience determines whether or not a reading participants of low and high SES expressed more engagement behaviors toward conversational partners . authors hypothesized that, as SES rises, the capacity to fulfill one’s needs also increases . this may lead to greater feelings of independence