Links Between Individual Experiences and Social Structures Flashcards
What are inequities?
The unfair, unjust and avoidable causes of ill-health
How is socio-economics associated with cause of death?
Goes up for cancer, heart disease, injury and poisoning, suicide the more deprived you are
What does GBH stand for? What does this mean?
Greedy bastards hypothesis
Health inequalities can be interpreted as indirect/unintended consequences of the ever-adaptive behaviours of members of Britain’s power elite and capitalist executive
What is meant by social class?
Social classes are segments of the population sharing broadly similar types and levels of resources, with broadly similar styles of living and some shared perception of their collective condition.
What six grades of ‘class’ are laid out in 1980 Black report?
I. Professional II. Intermediate IIIn. Skilled non-manual IIlm. Skilled manual IT. Partly skilled V. Unskilled
When are classes formed?
Classes are formed at the point of production and reproduced throughout social life
What is the newer typology of classes? (4)
Capitalist/executive New middle class Old middle class Working class
In positivist studies, what is class and health inequalities reduced down to? (6)
Level of education Properties of work Household income Housing tenure Car ownership Patterns of lifestyle and behaviour
What is absolute poverty?
A set standard which is the same in all countries and which does not change over time. An income-related example would be living on less than $X per day.
What is relative poverty?
A standard which is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and which therefore differs between countries and over time. An income-related example would be living on less than X% of average UK income.
How was childhood poverty defined in the UK in 2010?
Defined a child as being poor when it lives in a household with an income below 60% of the UK’s average.
What was the average household income in 2013-14 before housing costs?
What does this make the poverty line?
£453 a week
£272 a week
Why does poverty lead to social exclusion?
People lack many of the opportunities that are available to the average citizen.This causes alienation or disenfranchisement of certain people within society. This reduces social cohesion in our society.
What pathways of embodiment are there? (4)
What does ‘pathways of embodiment’ mean?
Biological
Childhood
Social cultural
Classical conditioning – stimulus-response
Techniques that you might do in order to become a particular type of subject, e.g. fasting to lose weight to not be marginalised for being overweight.
What is meant by subjectivity?
Subjectivity is the product of discourses, ideologies and institutional practices. It can be thought of as an individual’s experience of the social and what the individual turns themselves into as a result of that social experience so that it is a process of individuation as well as socialization.
This includes the impact of rules, categorisations, normalisations, and surveillance.
i.e. What is considered normal gets transmitted.
