SOCIOL 5629 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confounding, Social Class, Social Stratification
15 Apr 2018
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Introduction: disparities in health follow typical fault lines of social stratification, ses, race/ ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation newer, brought on possibly from the beginning of hiv/ aids. How is social class typically measured: social class via occupation (dates back to 1851 in uk, 1 = professional, 2= managerial/ technical, 3= skilled occupations, 4= Socioeconomic status max weber (1864-1920: position of individuals within socially stratified system that differentially distributes resources (education, occupation, income) which people need to obtain outcomes and goals, stratification encompassed class (economic), status (prestige), and power (political) How is ses typically measured: education, occupational prestige, income, and recently wealth, race/ ethnicity sometimes used as crude proxy measure for ses when ses data not available, ses used more often than social class. Income - how much money coming in in a year // wealth - assets, investments, and value of your home: those (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t o(cid:449)(cid:374) ho(cid:373)es - young, poor, racial minorities- so they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulate (cid:449)ealth.
