Socio Economic Status And Socioeconomic Status

Social classes play a vital role in dynamic of families. The definition of social class is ambiguous and has no clearly outlined definition. However it is believed to be a combination of different aspects such as one’s life chances or resources, one’s status group, or those who share similar lifestyles and one’s education level make up an individuals social class. Therefore, in an ideal set up there would 4 social cases the upper, middle, working, and poor classes (Judge 2015) and these are the 4 that I will be using to distinguish the difference in how parents raise their children across social classes. One main influence that causes a polarization of social classes are parents economic resources and education level, thus influencing the jobs parents have and the availability they may have to invest in their child’s life. However the key characteristics that influence the ways parent raise their children are how they organize their child’s daily life, the use of language around their children, and through social interactions (Lareau 202). However the two main approaches across social class parents take in raising their child are natural growth and concerted cultivation.

Social class is a division of a society based on social and economic status which can include levels of wealth, success, power of authority, and influence. Status is can be defined or grouped having common economic, cultural, or political interests.

Socioeconomic Status is where a particular person or group of people stand in regards to social class. The main measurement that determines one's socioeconomic status is level of education, occupation and income. Although it may not be considered a factor in child development, socioeconomic status can actually play a huge role in determining what kind of adolescent a child develops into. It can influence a child’s morals, self-esteem, grades and many more aspects of a child's life. Socioeconomic status can play a role in determining where a person resides, the occupation they end up getting, their education and their income as well. So, although one’s socioeconomic status is technically made up of these aspects, one can be born into a low socioeconomic status which could result in them continuing to have one throughout their life. It is a cycle that one must break in order to change the outcome. Low socioeconomic status can result in child poverty. Child poverty over the years has risen and fallen but has remained consistently apparent in America. Child poverty can have detrimental effects on developing children and adolescents. It may influence the way they are raised, taught, cared for and many more aspects of the child's life which are important for successful development. Low socioeconomic status can determine how well children and adolescents develop and the type of person they develop into, including

Socioeconomic status influences health care quality and outcomes. Patients of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have worse self-reported health, lower life expectancy, and suffer from more chronic conditions when compared with those of higher socioeconomic status. As a result, patients of lower socioeconomic status, in which we will encounter throughout our career’s, require more care and attention during their visits due to this lack of access. These individuals typically need the most care and unfortunately, we will not see them as often compared to other socioeconomic groups. An additional additive for this population may include providing them with take home exercises in which they are able to perform on their own. That is if they are invested enough to complete them without further supervision. While some hospitals are willing to revise their current policies, to basically “write off” the lower class, we as athletic trainers have to be advocates for these individuals who make up the majority of the population. The first step that we can take involves going a step above to the school board and asking for better nutritional options regarding school lunches. Most school lunch options fail to include fresh alternatives consisting of mostly processed food that can be easily distributed to a large number of students. Another way in which we can promote healthy eating habits is by utilizing social media to share coupons and local grocery store ads to the parents of

Income and socioeconomic status-based differences in test scores occur because of the environment in which students were raised and the ability of their parents, and contribute to racial differences because of the racial income gap. DeNavas-Walt and Proctor (2015), of the Census Bureau, reported that black and Hispanic households had incomes lower than average, while the income of Asian and white, non-Hispanic households was above average. This means that discrimination based on income and socioeconomic status is more likely to affect black and Hispanic students. Guryan, Hurst, and Kearney (2008) found that mothers with at least a college education spent an average of 4.5 hours more caring for children per week than those with a high

Forming connections with schools helps parents promote their students’ achievement since it allows them to access valuable resources. However, racially diverse parents from low socioeconomic backgrounds exhibit less involvement in their children’s schools because of things such as language and cultural barriers (Lee & Bowen, 2006). Since more than 80% of students attending urban public schools are Black or Hispanic, these schools tend to have less parental involvement (Lee & Bowen,

In the United States, obtaining a higher education is more important than ever. The income gap between a family of college graduates and a family of high school graduates grew 30,000 dollars in just three decades (Porter). Institutions of higher education are engines of upward mobility that is not afforded to the entire population. American society is still plagued with racial disparities; however, they are no longer the main divider separating Americans. Today, the most imminent danger to the American dream is socioeconomic status (SES). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental economic organization, found that when it comes to academic achievement, SES has more influence in the United States

In a sense, a person’s social statuses define who they are and where they stand in the complex structure of social standings with our fellow humans. Some of these statuses we strive to obtain, such as the development of friendships or climbing up the hierarchy of a profession; others are thrust upon us at birth or by happenstance. The former are achieved statuses, a fitting name as such status must be obtained by the achievement of goals set by either individuals or society itself. The latter, those statuses thrust upon individuals, are called ascribed statuses. These include a person’s sex at birth, their race, physical and mental handicaps, etc. Social statuses greatly affect a person’s life, as different statuses beget different reactions from society. This paper will touch on such differences in three areas: sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Sex/gender concerns what sex a person was born into, and what kinds of expectations were placed upon them as they grow into women and men. Race/ethnicity concerns the physical differences of individuals based upon their families’ geographical origins- which can have an impact on traditions passed down within their family as well as determine how they are viewed within our culture. Socioeconomic status is a person’s social class, which is determined by wealth, quality of life, and profession. These classes include the upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, working class, and the lower class.

“If I could go to work and teach music and only have to worry about teaching music to a classroom of students that are ready to learn, what a job that would be!” (Charles Moorer Jr.). Socioeconomic status determines a number of things that we consider quite valuable to our overall make up as human beings. These things are to include the type/quality of education one receives, overall income and occupation. All of these are common things that we deal with regularly. Therefore, how does this affect musical development as well as the teaching of music?

Socioeconomic status(SES) (Lecia, 2014) defines communities and is used to segregate by ethnicity and race. The SES status highlights high-risk communities’ and the barriers of violence, unemployment and lack of economic opportunities its residents encounter. These barriers impede the residents’ ability to reverse generations of destructive habits to include sound financial management practices and thus the cycle of poverty continues. In 2003, Congress established the Financial Literacy and Education Commission (The National Strategy for Financial Literacy , 2006) and tasked the commission with improving the financial literacy and education of citizens in the US. This high-level approach started the dialogue in communities across the country

Socioeconomic status is often determined as a combination of education, income and occupation. Depending on the social class an individual is in, it affects the power,privileges, and care they are receiving. When looking at lower class, it shows a greater percentage rate of problems that rise in that category. One seemingly growing issue that is seen more in the lower class than any other social class is how many individuals are affected by the HIV/AIDS virus due to unstable living conditions. Though there are many cases of people that have contracted the virus in the other following classes, there is a disproportionately higher rate in the lower class.

Studies have routinely found that socioeconomic status is one of the most important factors in determining whether or someone is going to vote in elections. Traditionally, the higher someone’s socioeconomic status the more likely they are to vote in elections. It is often thought that this it is due to the fact that the higher one’s socioeconomic status the more they have at state in elections. However, it would seem that during elections with higher than normal levels of participation this tends to be less true. Therefore, the question that is trying to be answered here is if higher levels of voter participation cause the socioeconomic bias to decrease, when compared to years where the voter turnout is less?

Economic status limits you to just about everything. This may include food clothes shelter and educational potential. “Socioeconomic status (SES) 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 is broken into three sections. The section is also variables. They include income, education, and occupation. Socioeconomic status appears to form a decreasing point of education, health, and money for Black and Hispanic children, when compared to the achievement levels of White children. Black youth from low income area are faced with an uphill battle. Due to diminish

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 as the top 1%, to the working, or lower, class. Even between these two polars are classifications such as satisfied middle class, anxious middle class, and struggling middle class. From the moment we are born, we are prepared for our journey of life. We are taught to write our ABC’s, and those chicken scratch letters will turn into words, those words turn into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs, and so on until you are where I am, drinking coffee at nine o’clock on a

Socio-economic class has an extensive social influence on language variation (Meyerhoff and Schleef, 2010 pg. 392). Individuals of higher socio-economic class typically have a greater income in which can be further invested in higher education. Consecutively, those who are educated tend to use more of the standard form of language and in contrast, speakers with lower educational levels tend to use more of the non-standard language (Meyerhoff and Schleef, 2010 pg. 415). Among the various social classes of the socio-economic hierarchy, the use of standard and non-standard forms of language can vary greatly. The data from Trudgill (1995) demonstrates the percentage of appearances of three non-standard variants ((ng): [n], (t): [?], (h): [0]) in 5 socio-economic classes in the UK. What is defined as a social class depends on many different factors. Occupation, home value, personal wealth, aspirations to social mobility and various other factors need to be considered when determining one’s social class. The levels in the hierarchy of social class are also affected depending on the region. In the adapted Trudgill study (1995) that took place in the UK, the socio-economic classes that they observed were the middle middle class (MMC), lower middle class (LMC), upper working class (UWC), middle working class (MWC) and LWC (LWC). The Trudgill study (1995) demonstrates the usage of non-standard variants in the UK that differ significantly across the social classes. The current analysis of data adapted from Trudgill (1995) investigates the differences between the social classes and their varying association with the usage of the three non-standard variants in the UK.