Socioeconomic status

sta·tus: “is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person 's work experience and of an individual 's or family 's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.” Socioeconomic status, or also known as socioeconomic class, is explored in Unit 3 of [Re]Writing Communities and Identities. It is explained that these categories of income and community reputation can have a variety of ranges. From upper class, commonly referred to…

market contributes immensely on school choice as it creates a divide between several factors of socioeconomic class, power divide of parents and students, locality and privatisation of schooling due to public image (Proctor & Saiprakash, 2013). This is the basis for our sociological study on school choice and the privatisation of schooling, resulting in schools becoming a free-market. The socioeconomic divide within schools creates an increased choice of schooling in Australia. It is evident…

Article I Background It is known that socioeconomic status (SES) impacts both structural and functional brain development in childhood, but before this study, it was never tested how early the signs of impact could be detected. The earliest study of impact tested sixteen to thirty-six-month-old infants in their language and cognitive skills and predicted their language improvement for the next three years (Gou, Choudhury, & Benasich, 2011). Another study observed the effects of low SES by…

All of these factors contribute to the parent 's socioeconomic status (SES). It is widely believed that being born into a high SES family is ideal because “high SES families afford their children an array of services, goods, parental actions, and social connections” (Bradley & Corwyn, 2002) compared to low SES…

There were certain behaviors that Toren exhibited that I did not find to be very unusually in a campus culture. The main one being underage drinking, it is an unspoken rule that it is okay to drink before we are twenty-on. A lot of Toren’s drinking occurred in his dorm room, on the rule that what happens behind closed-door stays behind closed doors. “I drank throughout the next two days until I had return from Brazil back to my site and we parted ways (pg. 177).” He had frequently black outs,…

Environmental (geographic location, access to health services, technology) status’ and factors which both accumulate to ATSI’s experiencing the largest gap in health outcomes…

12-step programs seem to be more common, with that in consideration there are downfalls to this way of treatment. Lack of funding, religion, socioeconomic status and more are a few factors contributing to treatment options. Given the current aspects of treatment offerings there are improvement options. Improvement so that people even in the lowest socioeconomic status can receive treatment. However, not all…

It uses ideas like social status, wealth and education to systematically exclude certain groups from obtaining equal diabetes health outcomes. One pathway that SES uses to create disparity in diabetes health is through educational differences. As was seen previously, attaining higher…

Discussion 2: The Impact of Social Condition on Vulnerable Groups 1. Discuss the factors that make these populations vulnerable. According to the CDC (2015), Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the key factors of social vulnerability. It includes employment, income, housing (e.g., homelessness), and education level. People with lower socioeconomic status more likely lack resources needed to follow emergency preparedness instructions (p. 2). Being a youngster puts children at risk as a…

which I observed students of diverse socioeconomic groups. I will be discussing how I have a better understanding of how a student’s socioeconomic status influence their behavior and actions in the classroom. I will discuss any prejudices/discriminations I observed in the classroom based on socioeconomic diversity. I will also describe how this experience has made me determined to try to create a positive learning environment for students with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in the…