SOCIOL 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Blue-Collar Worker, Social Class, Cortisol
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Past: family name was indicator of social standing. Occupation is more salient in terms of your place in hierarchy. Hello, what do you do for a living : unconscious way of trying to figure out social standing. College students do this alot (do you go to a private/public/community, etc) Book pages: 103: list of occupations and prestige scores (90-10) More choices (on the job and in solving life"s everyday problems) Fewer choices (on the job and in solving life"s everyday problems) Westernized civilizations: value jobs that have more power and do good for the commonwealth. Lifestyle: same amount of income/prestige affect lifestyle, makes people like each other. Tend to self segregate into neighborhoods, same lifestyles. Louisville neighborhoods: disease rates, life span the importance of power/powerlessness in our lives biology and stress, cortisol, monkeys/cold virus children"s health & social class racism & health social reforms, wealth gap, other countries. Social class determines health care coverage and overall health.
