Race and Socioeconomic Status

Race and Socioeconomic Status

For Good Health, It Helps To Be Rich and Important

• Socioeconomic class is one of the most powerful predictors of health.

• Case done by Dr. Michael Marmot.
• Mortality rates of 17,000 male civil service employees. 10 years.

Goode, Erica. "For Good Health, It Helps To Be Rich and Important - New York Times." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Stress

• Sense of control declines as socioeconomic class lowers.

• Bottom of ladder - 3x more likely to die prematurely.

• "Higher you are in the social hierarchy, the better your health."

VELASQUEZ-MANOFF, MOISES. N.p., Web. <opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/status-and-stress/?_php=true&_type=blogs&action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fstatus%2F&_r=0>.

Learned Helplessness

The Effects on Health

The poor have less ability to address life stressors

- no control over ones fate.

VELASQUEZ-MANOFF, MOISES. N.p., Web. <opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/status-and-stress/?_php=true&_type=blogs&action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fstatus%2F&_r=0>.

"Unemployment among persons with a disability, 2011 : The Editor’s Desk : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Race: A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted transmitted physical characteristics.

Culture: An invisible web of behaviors, patterns, rules and rituals of a group of people who have contact with one another and share a common language.

SES and Mobility

How does a persons race and socioeconomic status affect their mortality rate?

Is there a specific race that is more predisposed to sickness or cancer because of their socioeconomic standing?

• How does your socioeconomic status affect your upward mobility?
• How real is the American dream for non whites?

Mobility of Families

From late 90's into early 2000, on average income for both white and black families rose, but less so for blacks.

What is socioeconomic class?

What factors affect race and socioeconomic class?

Upward Mobility

• There is a strong correlation between education and income. But during the 90's:
• 80% of blacks and less than 80% of hispanics graduated from high school.
• Less than 15% of blacks and hispanics graduated from college.

Data from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pursuing the American Dream: Economic Mobility Across Generations, July 2012 - See more at: http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0167_American_mobility#sthash.TGpBlsfo.dpuf

In 2004 the median family income of blacks aged 30 to 39 was 58% that of whites. $35,000 for blacks, $60,000 for whites.

Haskins, Ron. "Education and Economic Mobility." . Web. 10 Mar. 2014.

Isaacs, Julia B. "Economic Mobility of Black and White Families." Brookings. Brookings, Nov. 2007. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. <http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2007/11/blackwhite-isaacs>.

Housing has become easier and easier to obtain.

Environment

and

Parenting Styles

• Does where you live affect your socioeconomic status?

• How does socioeconomic status affect parenting styles?

Occupation and Public Perception

Environment

Occupation and Income

• Available Heuristics
• 35 million Blacks in the United States
• 13% of the population
• Only 1,200 play Professional Sports
• 12 times more lawyers
• 15 times more doctors

Parenting Styles

Fulwood, Sam. "Race and Beyond: The Media's Stereotypical Portrayals of Race." Center of American Progress.

N.p., 1 Mar. 2013. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

• How does ethnicity affect job opportunities?
• How does does media affect racial public perception when it comes to occupations?

"Socioeconomic Status." Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Socioeconomic Status Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

High SES: authoritative parenting styles

Low SES: authoritarian parenting styles

Families from low-SES communities are less likely to have the financial resources or time availability to provide children with academic support.

"Education & Socioeconomic Status." Http://www.apa.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Kopko, Kimberly. "Parenting Styles and Adolescents." N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Management Professional Occupations

• White men:47.7%
• Black men:23.5%
• White men typically make $400 more in this field than black men.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Statistics, 14 Sept. 2011.

Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Poverty

• Americans receiving welfare: 12,800,000
• 38.8% White
• 39.8% Black
• 15.7% Hispanic
• National Poverty Center
• 27.4% of Blacks, 26.6% of Hispanics, and 9.9% of whites are considered poor.

National Poverty Center. Regents of the University of Michigan, 2011. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Statistics Brain. N.p., 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.