Socioeconomics

Over the past several decades, a disparity in the achievement of low-income schools and high-income schools has slowly hurt the United States. As someone who experienced life near a neighborhood that featured low-income schools, their situation becomes more understandable. The economically disadvantaged students in low-income schools are frequent victims of an issue that has plagued the United States for many years. In these schools, they are presented with many disadvantages that hurt their…

Depression in Adolescence Unipolar depressive disorder in children and adolescents is a problem across the world that has become very common, but is often not recognized correctly (Thapar, Collishaw, Pine, & Thapar, 2012). Depression in adolescents is associated with a substantial risk of suicide, is the second leading cause of death in this age group and at least half of those who attempted suicide have described symptoms associated with depressive disorders at the time of death (Hawthorn,…

The Effects of Hidden Socioeconomic Rules on the Middle Class Rules are everywhere. They are in sports, politics, nature, and even in social classes. However, the rules in the social classes are distinctive in that they are very seldom put to paper, but yet are still strictly adhered to at a subconscious level by every one of us. In fact, little did I know how much the hidden rules and customs of the middle class have influenced me. From small things such as how I perceive food to how humor is…

by playing them a simple command, like “look at the ball”, and then recording what group of children responded quicker and by how many seconds. Author Bjorn Carey states that the results of Fernald’s testing showed that ”toddlers in the higher socioeconomic status (SES) group could identify the [ball] in about 750 milliseconds, while the lower SES toddlers were 200 milliseconds slower to respond”, continuing to say that “a 200-millisecond difference in terms of mental processing speed is huge at…

Assessments are designed to determine whether there is a problem, distinguish an individual strengths and weaknesses, predict the future course of disorders, classify the problem and provide useful tips for intervention. Clinicians use these ideas to assess the clients’ behavior by a set of guided questions. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a self-administered tool that provides information relevant to the clinical diagnosis, treatment and screenings for psychopathology (Morey,…

war on all fronts. Officers were expected to be shielded from the danger of emotional breakdown by their superior competence and judgment, their position of responsibility, and the need to set an example for their subordinates. Women of higher socioeconomic status also had this entrenched in them as West suggest on page 70. However, this typecast was challenged in the following verse “He walked not loose-limbed like a boy, as he had done that very afternoon, but with the soldier 's hard tread…

Disproportionate Minority Representation Special Education can be provided to any student with disabilities if they qualify for an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), but is there a disproportionate representation of minorities in special education classrooms? As it appears now, there is two sides to this argument, the first being an overrepresentation of minority students in special education classes and the second being an underrepresentation of minority students in special education classes…

The impact of socioeconomic status on accessibility to health care, lifestyle, occupations, and basic amenities (food and shelter) is huge. I was born into a Hindu-Shimpi family; we are considered as lower caste in the Indian society. Since childhood, I was taught to be frugal…

(Mullen, 2014). Students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds attend liberal institutions to gain experience that would aid to their self-development, perhaps due to their sheltered life and limited exposure outside of their socioeconomic class. This experience will enable them to socialize in social events, classroom and other activities with a diverse background. Although affluent students may enhance their intellectual maturity, students of lower socioeconomic class view their experiences…

right way. In this essay, I am going to explain class mobility in general, but also in an intergenerational context, using Don’s story. I will use the concepts of meritocracy, structural and individual explanation, the concentration of wealth, socioeconomic status to analyze Don”s class mobility.…