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What is a social class?

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A segment of the population, distinguished from others by similarities in labour market position and property relations
Tied to theories of social stratification
Includes measures of economic, social and cultural capital

2
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What is social stratification?

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Divisions in society based on economic and social class

3
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What is the Registrar General scale base on?

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Occupation

4
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What are the categories of the Registrar General scale?

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I = professional
II = intermediate
IIIa = skilled non-manual 
IIIb = skilled manual
IV = semi-skilled manual
V = unskilled manual
5
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What does the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification capture?

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Job security 
Career structure 
Autonomy
Authority 
Salary/pay rise
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What are the categories of National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification?

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  1. Higher managerial/professional
  2. Lower managerial/professional
  3. Intermediate
  4. Small employers/self employed
  5. Lower supervisory and technical
  6. Semi-routine
  7. Routine
  8. Never worked/long term unemployed
7
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What is intersectionality?

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Intersections between aspects of social difference and identity and forms of systematic oppression

8
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What can inequalities and health be shown by?

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Income
Gender
Age
Place
Ethnicity
Not often mutually exclusive - often have causal mechanism
9
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What is an artefact in data?

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Evidence of inequality isn’t actually real - the relationship is fake

10
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Issues with the relationship between inequality and health

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Social classes changing in size

Causal mechanism not clear

11
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What is the health selection explanation?

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Healthier = more upwardly mobile

More vulnerable face discrimination with social structures

12
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Cultural/behavioural explanation

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Assumes social class differences cause variation in health status
Argues that lifestyle varies by social class
13
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What is the psycho social explanation?

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The lower you are in a hierarchy, the less autonomy and control of circumstances you have, which reinforces stress and anxiety

14
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Relevance of sociology to medicine

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Intervene with patients and support communities

15
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What influence does social position have on how people manage health and interact with health services?

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May result in irrational behaviour
Understand broader social context
Health services put requirements on patients