Sociology - Social Strutcures Flashcards
What is determinism?
Our actions etc are determined by social structures or forces
What is voluntarism?
Individual has free will
What does C. Wright Mills sat on the ‘sociological imagination ’ ?
Moves fluidly between personal troubles and issues of social structures.
Example of unemployment- one persons unemployment is their own problem but when 15 million people are unemployed ‘the very structure of opportunity has collapsed’
What is the national statistics sociology-economic classification?
Class 1 - higher managerial and professional e.g. doctors, lawyers, architects
Class 2 - lower managerial and professional e.g. nurses, teachers, journalists
Class 3 - intermediate e.g. armed forces, paramedics, bank staff
Class 4 - small employers and own account workers e.g. farmers, shopkeepers, driving instructors
Class 5 - lower supervisory and technical e.g. electricians, plumbers, chefs
Class 6 - semi routine e.g. receptionist, telephone salespersons, care workers
Class 7 - routine e.g. labourers, bar staff, lorry drivers
Social stratification today
The 1% class
The salaried elite
The precariat
The working poor
People receiving social benefits, such as citizen salary
What is the jubilee line of health inequity?
Travelling east from west minister each tube stop represents up to one year of male life epxtancy lost at birth (2002-2006)
Behavioural model for health inequality
Involve class differences in behaviours that are yeah damaging or health promoting, and which, at least in principle, are subject to individual choice.
Materialist model of health inequalities
Involve hazards that are inherent in the present form of social organisation and to which some people have no choice but to be exposed.
The black report (1980) judged that materialist explanations were the most important in accounting for social class differences in health.
Psychosocial model for health inequalities
Feelings affect behaviours (i.e. feelings about socioeconomic status, inequality, ones body, ones work.)
Includes health-related stigma
Feelings that arise because of inequality, subordination and lack of social support may directly affect biological processes.
Life-course Odell for health inequalities
Disadvantages in their various forms are likely to accumulate through childhood and adulthood and old age
Upstream and downstream factors influencing health inequalities
Fundamental causes : global forces, political priorities, societal values leading to unequal distribution of income, power and wealth.
Wider environmental influences: economic and work, physical, education and learning, social and cultural, services.
Individual experiences: economic and work, physical, education and learning, social and cultural, services.
Effects : inequalities in the distribution of health and wellbeing.
