Socioeconomic status

( Te Ara the encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 2012) portrays that socio economic status is the critical factor of health as it incorporates various factors such as education, income and occupation. There are numerous ways of measuring Socio economic status such as New Zealand Index of Deprivation, this measure utilises data on employment, family status, education, accommodation and transport which all contribute to a person’s health and wellbeing. These scores can also be measured as deciles for…

Frequently people living in the United States choose to believe that we are no longer a state that has social classes among us. When the few social classes are recognized, people regularly oversee the inequalities that go along with them. Nonetheless, social class has generally been and remains to be a main judge for a number of social inequalities. These inequalities are related to work, education, and health care they receive. Even though many enhancements have been made regarding social…

The Journey to Maturity: Hair and Vanity in Alcott’s Little Women and Grimm’s “The Goose Girl” Hair, even today, is often used to symbolize femininity: while neat and tidy hair is often associated with womanliness, high social status, and proper behaviour or manners, short, messy, and boyish haircuts typically represent the opposite. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women uses hair to symbolize the identity and growth of the young, impressionable female characters using the disproving of hair as…

Is the American Dream Feasible? The American Dream is the belief that prosperity and success are available to all Americans who work hard and are self-determined. Most Americans define the American Dream as earning a college degree, having an advanced job, taking vacations, owning their own home, and experiencing upward social mobility. Upward social mobility is referred to as the movement up the social class ladder. Some Americans argue that the American Dream is no longer reachable while…

She puts on a brave face for so long that she is unable to find her former, content and youthful self. Miss Bates worries about money, social status and people’s opinion of her too much that it consumes her and becomes all she can think about. She tries to distract herself with constant chatter and social interactions, but it is only a matter of time before the fake smiles wear off and she cracks…

In nowadays, individuals are free and brave to express their unfair treatments and claim for their human rights that everyone in the world, no matter the social class, gender, race and so on, should be treated equally. However, according to the three readings that we would discuss, individuals depend on different occupations, sexuality, social background, and even age, they expose themselves vulnerabilities in the real world. Malcolm Gladwell in his article, “The Power of Context”, provides…

“Reputation”, can be considered as a social term. The concept of reputation is made up of two major elements; the first is the person and how much does he work to gain a good reputation among the people in the society. The second element is the social criteria which the members of the society use to judge the reputation of any one in the society. In this essay I will discuss the reputation of one of the famous divas; Madonna Louise, the most famous pop American singer, she has got the title of…

If someone asks about the existence of social hierarchy, most of the people would answer that they think that social hierarchy exists. In one’s workplace, in one’s town, in one’s house, in one’s church, even in one’s school, the hierarchy exists. There are helpful social hierarchies which help people to be organized, but there are also hierarchies that aggravate segregation, conflict, and quarrel. To kill a mockingbird deals with the hierarchy that existed at that time. The book was published in…

Pygmalion Social class Essay Thought the play we notice how social class affects the interactions between the characters and the way they classify a person just by what they have not the quality of person they are. Mr. Higgins a man of may with the best payed education is the mentor of Liza. He who has had the best education and belongs to an upper social class, but as a human being has no manners and no education at all. And liza a poor innocent flower poor who dreams of…

Differences and inequalities highlight the making and remaking of society and social lives. Society is not a separate entity but is made up of interactions, connection and relationship between groups, self, objects and environment. Differences are contrast based on age, disability, wealth, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race and class. Social identities are differences that pinpoint the sense of self, emerging from early experiences that form the basis of interactions. It is malleable, multiple…