Socioeconomic status

as an individual living in a developed country, I believe in a socioeconomic status perspective in which mobility of classes is possible. Furthermore, with the amount of potential in this country, this motivates me to continue pushing in order to move on the continuum of class. According to the Martin (2012), earning a college degree represents a chance at “a better life” and an opportunity for “getting out” from under the socioeconomic hardship in which the lower class are raised (pg.63). Even…

is a time of growing up, moving from the immaturity of childhood into the maturity of adulthood, of preparation of the future (Steinberg, 2014). There are many factors that contribute to the behavior of adolescence, such as family structure, socioeconomics, parenting techniques, medical conditions, and depression. Therefore, as a teacher, knowing and understanding these factors can have a large impact on the student’s academic achievement. This holds true because “teachers set the tone for…

Introduction This essay will explore the relationship between the Treaty of Waitangi (ToW) and the inequities in type II diabetes between Māori and non-Māori. It is evident that disparities such as quality of care and access to care can be linked to the three breaches in articles under the Māori version of the ToW. To demonstrate the inequities in diabetes the 1852 New Zealand Constitution Act, 1907 The Tohunga Suppression Act, Orewa Speech and an overview of the treaty breaches will be used to…

Describe how your personal background and life experiences have influenced Your decision to pursue a graduate education in social work. Please include any challenges or hardships you may have overcome on your journey. When I was four years old my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. My life changed completely after her diagnosis. My dad abandoned us. We could not afford to live by ourselves, since my mother could not work. She was disabled from her neck down. Immediately, she was…

Throughout the duration of the service learning experience, conducted observations took place within the third grade classroom of Mrs. Hale at Cumberland Road Elementary. The respectably moderately sized classroom consisted of twenty students. Although the classroom was not substantially dense in population, multiple students did require Individualized Education Programs (IEP). This subgroup of students included three emotional based IEPs. Consequently, the third grass class of Mrs. Hale…

I heard once that it does not matter where you come from, but where you are going. While this quote conveys a very powerful message, it is simply a dream for many of the people that I’ve grew up with over the years. Some of my friends can only wish for a chance to have a better life or even to move out of a neighborhood where people are shot in their backyards. As we have learned in various class lectures, the overall environment in which you grow up plays a major role in our development, well…

Grant, et al (1998) experimented with “40 participants who read a two-page article under silent or noisy conditions.” Participants were then tested with matching or mismatching conditions example; silent study/silent test and noisy study/noisy test or silent study/noisy test etc. The design of the test was to imitate standard classroom tests, and assess the participant’s ability to comprehend new material (i.e. memory for meaning). To accommodate the possibility that context-dependency effects…

There are associations between the materialistic/structural explanation and the cultural behavioural explanation. The cultural explanation suggests that the social distribution of poor health is linked to differences in individual behaviours and to different groups’ attitudes towards their health (Daykin, 2001). The Stroke Foundation of NZ (2010) suggests that people who are subject to a greater degree of disadvantage were estimated to have about a 60% increased risk of stroke when compared with…

differences between the two dialects. The rational behind this study has several factors that provide a logical reasoning for this particular testing. Firstly, many studies have tried to understand why such a wide ‘achievement gap’ exists between socioeconomic statuses.…

and social status a person is has been proven to show how healthy and long that person will live. According to the text “whites hold a significant advantage in health and longevity, having a life expectancy at birth of 79.0 years compared with African Americans’ 75.3.” Also the infant mortality rate is greatest in American Indians and Blacks. Racial minorities seem to have all of the worst statistics in different categories; this is seen a social inequality. A low socioeconomic status does…