Social class and health
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- Created on: 28-09-20 17:10
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- Social class and health
- effects of social inequality
- Social cohesion
- Social inequality creates social divisions which, in turn, negatively impacts health
- social deprivation
- The poor suffer more with ill-health than the rich
- status syndrome
- Those lower down the status hierarchy suffer more stress as a result of not feeling respected by those higher up
- Social cohesion
- explanations
- Artefact
- health outcomes are the result of methods of measurement that artificially inflate differences
- sociologists reject this explanation
- health outcomes are the result of methods of measurement that artificially inflate differences
- natural and social selection
- those who are weaker and sicker are naturally more likely to end up at the bottom of social hierarchy
- cultural and behavioural
- poor health due to unhealthy lifestyles and not looking after themselves
- different attitudes and values such as fatalism and immediate gratification
- Black report and health divide
- class differences in health remain even when cultural and lifestyle factors are included
- poor health due to unhealthy lifestyles and not looking after themselves
- material and structural explanations
- blame capitalist system for health inequalities
- poorer health are also those who are materially disadvantaged
- e.g. poor housing and living/ working conditions
- poorer health are also those who are materially disadvantaged
- blame capitalist system for health inequalities
- Artefact
- effects of social inequality
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