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Education, Social Status, and Health (Paperback, New)
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Education, Social Status, and Health (Paperback, New)
Series: Social Institutions and Social Change Series
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Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities
that make it especially important to health. It influences health
in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life,
cumulative, self-amplifying, and uniformly positive. Educational
attainment marks social status at the beginning of adulthood,
functioning as the main bridge between the status of one generation
and the next, and also as the main avenue of upward mobility. It
precedes the other acquired social statuses and substantially
influences them, including occupational status, earnings, and
personal and household income and wealth. Education creates
desirable outcomes because it trains individuals to acquire,
evaluate, and use information. It teaches individuals to tap the
power of knowledge. Education develops the learned effectiveness
that enables self-direction toward any and all values sought,
including health. For decades American health sciences has acted as
if social status had little bearing on health. The ascendance of
clinical medicine within a culture of individualism probably
accounts for that omission. But research on chronic diseases over
the last half of the twentieth century forced science to think
differently about the causes of disease. Despite the institutional
and cultural forces focusing medical research on distinctive
proximate causes of specific diseases, researchers were forced to
look over their shoulders, back toward more distant causes of many
diseases. Some fully turned their orientation toward the social
status of health, looking for the origins of that cascade of
disease and disability flowing daily through clinics. Why is it
that people with higher socioeconomic status have better health
than lower status individuals? The authors, who are well recognized
for their strength in survey research on a broad national scale,
draw on findings and ideas from many sciences, including
demography, economics, social psychology, and the health sciences.
People who are well educated feel in control of their lives, which
encourages and enables a healthy lifestyle. In addition, learned
effectiveness, a practical end of that education, enables them to
find work that is autonomous and creative, thereby promoting good
health.
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