MCAT Behavioral Sciences Chapter 12

Social stratification

Who gets what and why, based on SES

Prestige

Respect society has for a status, person, idea

Power

Ability to affect behavior through reward, punishment, due to resources

Social inequality due to

Anomie lack of universal social norms, strain theory says anomic conditions cause deviance, no social solidarity

Marx

Class consciousness organizes working class for a goal, false when people don’t know their position in society

Social capital

More investment in networks, high integration and cultural capital, need strong peer and kin ties with communites, not weak ties

Intragenerational, intergenerational mobility

Changes in social status within a lifetime, within a generation from parent to kid

Social reproduction

Same social status across generations, horizontal mobility

Poverty

Absolute is not enough money to mantain basic quality of life, relative is less then their population

Incidence

Number of new cases/population at risk in a period of time

Prevalence

Total cases overall new and chronic/population in a period of time

Morbidity

Degree of illness, burden

Mortality

Deaths caused by a disease

Second sickness

Exacerbated morbididty due to social injustice

Medicare, Medicaid

For seniors, for those with financial need