Education, Social Status, and Health

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John Mirowsky

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Social Institutions and Social Change Series

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In examining why it is that people with higher socio-economic status have better health than lower-status individuals, Mirowsky and Ross draw on findings and ideas from many sciences, including demography, economics, social psychology and the health sciences. They argue that education creates most of the association between higher social status and better health. People who are well educated feel in control of their lives, which encourages a healthy lifestyle. In addition, learned effectiveness, a practical end of the education, enables them to find work that is autonomous and creative, thereby promoting good health. The benefits of education to health are pervasive, cumulative and self-amplifying, growing across the life course. In this book, the authors' challenge received notions in medical sociology and public health, which extends the range of empirical data for social stratification.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2003

Author

John Mirowsky

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

251

Series

Social Institutions and Social Change Series

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9780202307077

Product ID

4179957

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