HSBH 1006-W4 the class origins of health inquality

Annotations:

• class tends to focus on lifestyle differences and consumption patterns, particularly regarding fashion, as a social maker of status.
• upper class-who own and/or manage economic resources, such as raw materials, technology, and workplaces, and employ others to create profit for them. middle class-a diverse group of people who possess some form of qualification and skill that allows them to attract higher wages and better working conditions. working class-consists of unskilled manual and non-manual (blue- and white-collar) workers who gain employment solely by selling their labour power.
• the differences between 'class' and 'socio-economic status'(SES)
• all class models have  'grey areas'.

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• one of the key indicators of class inequality is the distribution of wealth in a country.

1. upper class or ruling class?
2. intersecting structures of inequality and the 'death of class'

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• poor have the highest rates of illness and shortest life expectancy.

1. artefact explanations

   Annotations:

   • are artificial and the result of statistical anomalies or the inability to measure social phenomena accurately.
2. natural/social selection explanations

   Annotations:

   • people's health disadvantage (for example, disability) causes social disadvantage such as poverty.
3. cultural/behavioral explanantion

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   • a focus on changing the behaviour of  individuals assumes they exist in a social vacuum, ignoring the social context, social relations, and social processes that affect their lives.
4. materialist/structural explanations

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   • concern the role of social,  economic, and political factors in determining the social distribution of health and illness.
5. bringing class analysis back in: the structure-agency debate and health behaviour
6. psycho-social/social capital explanations of the social gradient of health